ABSTRACT
Gender, livelihoods and environment are powerful prisms with which to view and unpack processes of development in Southeast Asia. Changes in people’s lives and their identities are in part defined through the resources they use for daily living and livelihoods, and further mediated by their unequal gender, class and ethnic differences in society. Wider political and economic drivers also shape development and change in people’s lives, which may create paths of well-being, or place them at greater disadvantage. More intense and frequent exposure to climate and disaster risks, meanwhile, make life generally more difficult, as this impinges on an already long list of uncertainty factors that characterize vulnerable living for poor women and men in the region.
