Graduate School Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Yoshida Honmachi,
Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan.
Abstract
This article integrates three dimensions on people livelihoods and human security and
environmental hazards. It seeks for identifying the vulnerability of brackish environmental
hazards in a context of livelihood dimension. The perspective places high emphasis on illustrating
the adaptation to these exposures in fishing communities, in order to address human
security at the community level. On the basis of the above consideration, a detail case study
was conducted in Songkhla Lake which is brackish and the largest lake in Thailand. The
findings explain that brackish environmental hazards have been increasingly undermining
fishing activities and as a result threatening human security. The degradation poses a challenge
to the fishing communities and leads to various livelihood patterns according to the
geographical difference and anthropogenic pressures in the lake. These identifications will
be helpful in throwing some light on enhancing resilient community development for sustaining
human security.
Keywords: Human security; Livelihood; Adaptation; Brackish environment; Songkhla Lake.
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