Resilience and coping strategies against socio-ecological risks: a case of livelihoods in a Botswana rural community.
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Abstract
With the eminence of sustainable development (SD) as a framework for responding to socio-ecological risks in communities, the risks are likely to persist for poor rural communities resulting from diminishing benefits from their natural resource base on which their livelihoods are sustained. This is in spite of the extensive promotion of community natural resource management approaches that have taken place in the past decade to alleviate these risks. Such communities can be viewed as part of socio-ecological systems that, when resilience and coping strategies are lacking within them, can collapse further into an undesirable state of socio-economic risks. The survival of these communities can sometimes be complex and costly if not properly managed and supported. Using a single case study in a poor rural community in Chobe, we further illustrate how an individual in these rural communities can develop resilience and coping strategies in the face of impending socio-ecological risks, to sustain their livelihood. This is demonstrated by examining the initiative of a blacksmith in Botswana, who through his blacksmith skills has been able to sustain himself. Through interviews and observations from the case, we further illustrate that not only is this a form of resilience and development of coping strategies, but also an opportunity for Community Natural Development Management (CBNRM) SD schemes to contribute to, and indeed learn from such initiatives to further enhance capacity building in such communities. Keywords: Resilience, coping strategies, CBNRM, socio-ecological risks, natural resources, livelihoods interest --------------------------------------------------------------- Strategies de resilience et d'adaptation face aux risques socio-ecologiques: un cas de subsistance dans une communaute rurale du Botswana Resume Devant l'eminence du developpement durable (DD) comme cadre pour reagir aux risques socio-economiques dans les communautes, les risques ont plus de chance de perdurer pour les communautes rurales pauvres entrainant la baisse des benefices issus de ressources naturelles, ce qui est la base de leur subsistance. Et ceci malgre une promotion extensive des approches de gestion des ressources naturelles de la communaute qui ont ete instaurees dans la derniere decennie pour reduire ces risques. De telles communautes peuvent etre vues comme faisant parties de systemes socio-ecologiques mais peuvent s'effondrer davantage dans un etat indesirable de risques socio-economiques lorsque les strategies de resilience et d'adaptation sont manquantes au sein d'elles-memes. La survie des ces communautes peut parfois etre complexe et couteuse si elle n'est pas correctement geree et supportee. A l'aide d'une etude de cas unique dans une communaute rurale pauvre de Chobe, nous illustrons en detail dans quelle mesure un individu de ces communautes rurales peut developper des strategies de resilience et d'adaptation face aux risques socio-ecologiques, dans le but de maintenir leur existence. Ceci est demontre en examinant l'initiative d'un forgeron du Botswana qui, a travers ses competences de forgeron, a pu subvenir a ses besoins. Grâce aux entrevues et aux observations du cas, nous illustrons en detail que ce n'est pas seulement une forme de resilience et de developpement de strategie d'adaptation, mais aussi une opportunite pour la Gestion du Developpement Naturel des Communautes (CBNRM en anglais) des schemas de DD auxquels contribuer ainsi que des initiatives dont il faut apprendre pour mieux ameliorer la capacite de construire dans de telles communautes.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".