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

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.