This open access interdisciplinary book integrates the major findings and theoretical advances
of a 12-year research program run by the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research LIVES
research program hosted by the universities of Lausanne and Geneva within a single
comprehensive and coherent publication on vulnerability across adulthood. The book is based on
the idea that vulnerability is an essential component of the life course that can inform how we
use our resources reserves and cope with stressors across the life course. It provides a
unique interdisciplinary research framework based on the idea that vulnerability is a complex
and dynamic process that can only be approached through a multidimensional multilevel and
multidirectional perspective. This is an invaluable new resource for students and researchers
in life course studies and those from other disciplines willing to include life course factors
in their research on vulnerability issues.
