Climate challenges, vulnerabilities, and food security

Margaret C Nelson; Scott E. Ingram; Andrew J. Dugmore; Richard Thomas Streeter; Matthew A. Peeples; Thomas H McGovern; Michelle Hegmon; Jette Arneborg; Keith W Kintigh; Seth Brewington; Katherine A Spielmann; Ian A Simpson; Colleen Strawhacker; Laura E L Comeau; Andrea Torvinen; Christian K Madsen; George Hambrecht; Konrad Smiarowski

doi:10.1073/pnas.1506494113

Climate challenges, vulnerabilities, and food security

Margaret C Nelson, Scott E. Ingram, Andrew J. Dugmore, Richard Thomas Streeter, Matthew A. Peeples, Thomas H McGovern, Michelle Hegmon, Jette Arneborg, Keith W Kintigh, Seth Brewington, Katherine A Spielmann, Ian A Simpson, Colleen Strawhacker, Laura E L Comeau, Andrea Torvinen, Christian K Madsen, George Hambrecht, Konrad Smiarowski

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This paper identifies rare climate challenges in the long-term history of seven areas, three in the subpolar North Atlantic Islands and four in the arid-to-semiarid deserts of the US Southwest. For each case, the vulnerability to food shortage before the climate challenge is quantified based on eight variables encompassing both environmental and social domains. These data are used to evaluate the relationship between the "weight" of vulnerability before a climate challenge and the nature of social change and food security following a challenge. The outcome of this work is directly applicable to debates about disaster management policy.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	298-303
Number of pages	6
Journal	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Volume	113
Issue number	2
Early online date	28 Dec 2015
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1506494113
Publication status	Published - 12 Jan 2016

Keywords

Vulnerability
Climate change
Disaster management
Prehistory
History

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Nelson, M. C., Ingram, S. E., Dugmore, A. J., Streeter, R. T., Peeples, M. A., McGovern, T. H., Hegmon, M., Arneborg, J., Kintigh, K. W., Brewington, S., Spielmann, K. A., Simpson, I. A., Strawhacker, C., Comeau, L. E. L., Torvinen, A., Madsen, C. K., Hambrecht, G., & Smiarowski, K. (2016). Climate challenges, vulnerabilities, and food security. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 113(2), 298-303. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1506494113

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