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Overview
The South African Vulnerability Initiative (SAVI) consists of an international network of researchers who have been developing a model to understand the intersection and interaction of multiple stressors on populations in the region in a context of rapid environmental change. The development of the SAVI framework was based on three key objectives:
- To identify and address how multiple stressors interact to create differential vulnerability;
- To understand how responses to one stressor may increase or reduce vulnerability to other stressors; and
- To identify the ways that interventions influence both current and future outcomes.
The SAVI framework draws on the "double exposure" framework by Obrien and Leichenko that was developed to understand the interactions between global environmental change and globalisation.
Various primary research projects by HEARD and others have assisted with the development of the SAVI model, which was recently presented at the Conference of the Global Environmental Chang and Human Systems Project, in Oslo this June.
Outputs and Activities
- Site Reports - Casale, M. (2007). Dealing with vulnerability: Parents' efforts to secure the future of their children. Phase I Site Report: Newcastle site.
- Site Reports - Casale, M. (2007). Dealing with vulnerability: Parents' efforts to secure the future of their children. Phase I Site Report: Warwick Junction site.
- Site Reports - Chanika, D and Msoma, P (2007). Dealing with vulnerability: Parents' efforts to secure the future of their children. Phase I Site Report: Chikwawa Sample.
- Synthesis Paper - Casale, M., Chanika, D., Drimie, S., Gillespie, S., Kadiyala, S., Msoma, P., Quinlan, T. and Ziervogel, G., 2007. Experiencing Vulnerability in Southern Africa: The interaction of multiple stressors. Synthesis report. Durban: HEARD, University of KwaZulu-Natal, and Washington: RENEWAL Programme, International Food Policy Research Institute.
- Working Paper - Drimie, S and Casale, M. (2008). Families' Efforts to Secure the Future of Their Children in the Context of Multiple Stresses, Including HIV and AIDS. Joint Learning Initiative on Children and HIV/AIDS (JLICA), Learning Group One: Strengthening Families. Human Sciences Research Council, Pretoria.
- IFPRI/RENEWAL Briefs, available at http://www.ifpri.org/renewal/findingsbriefs.asp Click here for more information.
- Casale, M, Chanika, D, Drimie, S, Gillespie, S, Kadiyala, S, Msoma, P, Quinlan, T and Ziervogel, G (2008). Experiencing Vulnerability in Southern Africa: the interaction of multiple stressors. HIV, Livelihoods, Food and Nutrition Security: Findings from RENEWAL Research (2007-2008). Brief 6. IFPRI/RENEWAL and JLICA.
- Drimie, S and Casale, M. Families' efforts to secure the future of their children in the context of multiple stresses, including AIDS. HIV, Livelihoods, Food and Nutrition Security: Findings from RENEWAL Research (2007-2008). Brief 7. IFPRI/RENEWAL and JLICA.
- Recent SAVI publications - O'Brien, K., Quinlan, T. and Ziervogel, G (2009). Vulnerability Interventions in the Context of Multiple Stressors: Lessons from the Southern Africa Vulnerability Initiative (SAVI). Environmental Science and Policy. 12(1): 23-32.
- Recent SAVI publications - Drimie, S. and Quinlan, T (2009). Taking stock of the Southern African Vulnerability Initiative. IHDP Update, Magazine of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change, Issue No. 2: 19-24.
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