RDE 425 - A typology of Livelihood Adaptation Strategies and Social Resilience

Description

The MMO would like to gather evidence from English case studies about livelihood 
strategies 
The objectives of this work are to:
1. Review the literature on fisher livelihood adaption, paying attention to gender, age 
and life course
2. Identify research gaps and collect new evidence/data where necessary through 
fieldwork in England and/or secondary qualitative analysis of existing social research 
data (e.g., ESRC repository, past funded projects where possible according to 
consent/ethical procedures)
3. Develop a typology of adaptive livelihood strategies within current day fishing 
communities (different typologies could be developed for different types of fisheries 
e.g., beach launched/ harbour, inshore/offshore, finfish/shellfish...)
4. A theoretical model/map based on evidence, which outlines potential influencing 
factors in the choice of livelihood strategy (e.g. financial risk, lifecourse/age, available 
capital and social support...), and implications of different strategies for the 
sustainability and resilience of fisheries and their associated fishing communities
5. Recommendations for further work including baseline data collection to facilitate 
social impact assessments of management decisions
6. Generation of material summarising this work and its findings for wider organisation 

This contract was awarded by MMO.