Confronting coastal poverty: Building sustainable coastal livelihoods in South Africa
✍ Scribed by Bruce C. Glavovic; Saskia Boonzaier
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 295 KB
- Volume
- 50
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0964-5691
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✦ Synopsis
This is the second of two articles exploring coastal management in South Africa. It focuses on the adoption of the Sustainable Livelihoods approach that has underpinned recent policy implementation efforts. This approach complements prevailing coastal management thinking and practice by focusing attention on the strategies that poor people use to access coastal resources, mediated by governance institutions and social relations, in the pursuit of desired livelihood outcomes. South Africa's efforts to adopt this approach help to better understand coastal livelihood opportunities and challenges, identify priority interventions for improving livelihood prospects, and reveal imperatives for building sustainable coastal livelihoods.