Snakes and ladders, buffers and passports: Rethinking poverty, vulnerability and wellbeing

Arbeitspapier

Much research to date has tended to view vulnerability by discipline or sector, yet individuals and households experience multiple, interacting and sometimes compound vulnerabilities. Cross-disciplinary thinking is emerging as multi-dimensional vulnerability is likely to become an increasingly important concept if the outlook over the next 15 to 25 years is one of multiple, interacting and compound stressors and crises, a result of the perfect-storm or long-crisis thesis of the interaction of demographics, climate change and food and energy prices. A realigned analytical lens is thus useful to bring together the various intellectual strands involved in multi-dimensional vulnerability analysis. In light of the above, this paper reviews the literature on vulnerability and asks what a three-dimensional human wellbeing approach -a complement to more traditional ways of understanding poverty- might contribute to the analysis of vulnerability.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Working Paper ; No. 83

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft
• Subject: vulnerability ; resilience ; poverty ; wellbeing

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Sumner, Andy ; Mallett, Rich
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (IPC-IG)
• (where): Brasilia
• (when): 2011

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/71811
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:46 AM CET