APPENDIX C
Methodology and Data Lykke Andersen, Inger Brisson, Claus Pörtner, and Dorte Verner
This appendix first describes the sustainable livelihoods framework as used in this study, and then describes the data and quantitative methods that were used to explore whether there are correlations between climate change and variability and life expectancy or child mortality (in chapter 6), poverty and inequality (in chapter 7), and migration (in chapter 8).
Sustainable Livelihoods Framework The framework, adapted from U.K. Department for International Development’s sustainable livelihoods framework (SLF; DFID 2004), represents the main factors that affect people’s livelihoods (figure C.1). In focusing on people’s access to assets, the SLF reflects the multidimensionality of poverty. The SLF is a tool for assessing the vulnerability of the poor and their capacity to cope in the presence of shocks and adapt to changing trends—which is highly important seen from a climate change perspective. Vulnerability, and their added vulnerability due to climate change and climatic variability, can be assessed for different population groups, together with their ability to adapt to climate change within their specific environmental context. To address people’s vulnerability, the SLF focuses on five aspects to assess livelihood outcomes. This book has augmented the SLF with one more asset, cultural capital. 401