Climate Change and Food Insecurity: Toward a Sociology and Geography of Vulnerability

Downing, Thomas E.; Watts, Michael; Bohle, Hans‐Georg

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-61086-8_7

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“…While there was a difference of opinion among livestock experts in Arizona on the range of herd sizes necessary for an operation to be commercially viable, there was a consensus that the smaller operations -those with < 200 head -would face greater economic challenges than larger ranches if they operated without substantial investment from other non-ranch income sources (Ruyle et al 2000). Theoretically, economically marginal agricultural operations are thought to be the most vulnerable in the face of the extra expenses often associated with overcoming the impact of climatic stress (Parry 1990, Downing et al 1996.…”

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Climate variability and the vulnerability of ranching in southeastern Arizona: a pilot study

Eakin¹,

Conley²

2002

Clim. Res.

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For ranchers in the Southwest, unanticipated droughts pose serious management challenges. Social and economic factors combine with the physical impacts of drought to render ranchers more vulnerable to climate variability. Using agricultural census data and interviews with ranchers, we analyze ranchers' responses to drought events in 1996 and 1999. From this analysis we develop an initial assessment of the principal factors contributing to the vulnerability of ranching in southeastern Arizona to climatic variability, and we make some preliminary determinations regarding the potential use of climate information in mitigating this vulnerability. During drought, climatic conditions can combine with poor cattle prices and high feed costs to strain ranchers' resources. The ability to cope with drought is further complicated by changes in environmental policy and pressure from urban growth. In these circumstances, ranchers reported being tempted to sell their private ranch property to development interests. Although our pilot study identified smaller operations as the most vulnerable to climatic variability in the context of policy and economic uncertainty, these operations reported less utility in climate information. The multidimensional nature of vulnerability suggests that climate information will be most useful to ranching operations of all sizes if it is integrated with market, policy and other economic information and if existing information distribution channels are used to reach ranchers. KEY WORDS: Vulnerability · Ranching · Drought · Rangeland managementResale or republication not permitted without written consent of the publisher

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Climate variability and the vulnerability of ranching in southeastern Arizona: a pilot study

Eakin¹,

Conley²

2002

Clim. Res.

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“…These entitlements often vary according to gender, ethnicity, religion, class and age conditions (Cutter, 1995;Denton, 2002;Goldman and Riosmena, 2013). They encompass resources and assets, including labor power, technology, education and information, as well as people's decision-making power and adaptive capacity (Adger and Kelly, 1999;Downing et al, 1996;Kelly and Adger, 2000;Prowse and Scott, 2008;Sen, 1981Sen, , 1990Turner et al, 2003). Gender plays an important role here as some individuals may be constrained from pursuing particular adaptation options by a lack of access to or control over assets or by cognitive, social or cultural limitations (Meinzen-Dick et al, 2014;Meyiwa et al, 2014;Nyantakyi-Frimpong and BeznerKerr, 2015).…”

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How resilient are farming households and communities to a changing climate in Africa? A gender-based perspective

Perez¹,

Jones

Kristjanson

et al. 2015

Global Environmental Change

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“…These approaches have also focused on variables, institutions, and interactions that occur at the "local" scale. Vulnerability scholars, however, have demonstrated the importance of paying attention to characteristics of the political-economic setting, as well as power relations and social justice 3 (Downing, Watts, & Bohle, 1996;Eakin, 2005;Kelly & Adger, 2000;McLaughlin & Dietz, 2008;Wisner, 2003). In this study, we explore the complementarities of these two approaches.…”

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“We and us, not I and me”: Justice, social capital, and household vulnerability in a Nova Scotia fishery

Barnett

Eakin

2015

Applied Geography

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1Marine harvesters face significant livelihood challenges due to the impacts 2 of climate change on marine ecosystems, and due to economic fluctuations 3 that influence their incomes. In this study, we demonstrate vulnerability as Scotia. We conducted 31 semi-structured interviews and 113 surveys in the 10 summer of 2012 with buyers, harvesters, and local experts. We used Ostrom's 11 SES framework to pinpoint system elements that were salient to respondents, 12 with attention to household vulnerability outcomes. Based on an analysis of 13 these themes, we outline three processes affecting vulnerability outcomes:

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Climate Change and Food Insecurity: Toward a Sociology and Geography of Vulnerability

Cited by 21 publications

References 14 publications

Climate variability and the vulnerability of ranching in southeastern Arizona: a pilot study

Climate variability and the vulnerability of ranching in southeastern Arizona: a pilot study

How resilient are farming households and communities to a changing climate in Africa? A gender-based perspective

“We and us, not I and me”: Justice, social capital, and household vulnerability in a Nova Scotia fishery

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