Sustaining Livelihoods: An Analysis of Dryland Communities in West Timor, Indonesia

摘要: What enables a community to cope with stress, recover from trauma, and provide the next generation opportunity for sustainable livelihood? makes vulnerable to, lack capacity sustain livelihoods? This thesis is case study of three subsistence communities in semi-arid West Timor, Indonesia, that belong Atoin Meto tribal group. While climatic hazards can leave vulnerable, there are other underlying factors, particularly rural where societal structure has failed protect all members society adequately. seeks understand problem what causes vulnerability livelihood these era global warming, why their unable adequately this circumstance. Since aftermath WWII, welfare poor developing countries not substantially improved (Griffin & Khan 1978; Streeten 1984; Chambers 1995) exacerbated by environmental developmental problems which have arisen due disconnections between policy makers, environment (Agarwal Narain 1985). In drylands will be most group (Solomon et al. 2007; Fraser 2011). A critical assessment therefore needed discover real experienced dryland regions order empower local people support livelihoods future.