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SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS AND CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION

Module code: KD614
Credits: 5
Semester: Year-Long
Department: INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
International:

	Overview
	The �sustainable livelihoods approach� to poverty reduction provides a valuable framework for understanding the opportunities and assets available to poor people and sources of their vulnerability, as well as the impact upon them of different policies, organizations and institutional arrangements. During the module, participants will develop a critical understanding of the key concepts, principles and tools of the sustainable livelihoods approach to development; Become fully familiar with all components of the sustainable livelihoods framework of analysis; Be provided with analytical and methodological skills to allow them to undertake a livelihoods analysis and/or use the livelihoods approach in a development planning and climate change adaptation context, and be provided with knowledge of how the sustainable livelihoods approach can be integrated into disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation strategy and planning. Note: this module is delivered by online study only and is not currently available to take as a classroom based module.

Overview

The �sustainable livelihoods approach� to poverty reduction provides a valuable framework for understanding the opportunities and assets available to poor people and sources of their vulnerability, as well as the impact upon them of different policies, organizations and institutional arrangements.
During the module, participants will develop a critical understanding of the key concepts, principles and tools of the sustainable livelihoods approach to development;
Become fully familiar with all components of the sustainable livelihoods framework of analysis;
Be provided with analytical and methodological skills to allow them to undertake a livelihoods analysis and/or use the livelihoods approach in a development planning and climate change adaptation context, and be provided with knowledge of how the sustainable livelihoods approach can be integrated into disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation strategy and planning.
Note: this module is delivered by online study only and is not currently available to take as a classroom based module.

	Learning Outcomes
	On successful completion of the module, students should be able to: Have knowledge of the history and context of the sustainable livelihoods approach and different sustainable livelihoods frameworks of analysis; Have gained a critical understanding of the key concepts and principles underpinning the Livelihoods approach; Have the analytical and methodological skills to plan and undertake a Livelihoods analysis; Have gained insight into how sustainable livelihoods approaches and analyses links to and interacts with various other approaches to poverty reduction; Have the ability to link thinking on sustainable livelihoods to disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation strategies and planning.

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Assessment

	Autumn Supplementals/Resits
	Are supplemental/resit registrations permitted? Yes Is Supplemental Continuous Assessment registration permitted? No Is Supplemental Continuous Assessment capped? No

	Pre-Requisites
	None

	Co-Requisites
	None

	Timetable
	This timetable is not currently available, please contact the International Development Department.

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