ABSTRACT
People's livelihoods play important roles in enabling self-protection toward addressing their everyday, seasonal, and extreme risks. In the mid-1990s, a framework for sustainable livelihoods (SL) was developed to address these risks. This chapter builds upon some concepts to explain how livelihood strategies that are part of an adaptive integrated system approach can address such changes in hazards and vulnerability contexts that are driven by development and environmental processes. It begins with an explanation of the basic elements of the initial progressive corrective SL framework iterations. Modification of this framework to enable focus on prospective risk reduction is then explicated. The chapter presents some examples that highlight how relevant additional considerations regarding exogenous and endogenous changes can be incorporated. The resulting strategy decision-making for prospective SL toward disaster risk reduction including climate change adaptation can broadly incorporate climate and other change projections as appropriate for choices of risk-informed livelihood and basic social services provision strategies to dynamically optimise development well-being outcomes.
