Nested vulnerability: exploring cross-scale linkages and vulnerability teleconnections in Mexican and Vietnamese coffee systems

Eakin, Hallie; Winkels, Alexandra; Sendzimir, Jan

doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2008.09.003

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“…The concepts of teleconnectedness and nested vulnerability illustrate the ways in which drivers of vulnerability constantly evolve and interact on multiple spatial scales (Eakin et al, 2009;Adger et al, 2009;Ford et al, 2013). Eakin et al (2009) discuss the teleconnected and nested nature of vulnerability in her discussion of Mexican and Vietnamese coffee producers. Her case study demonstrates how global processes can shape opportunities and constraints at the local level, and how smallholder responses to global phenomenon can also influence larger scale processes.…”

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“…However, adaptive capacity does not necessarily translate into adaptive strategies (Adger and Banrett, 2009;Westerhoff & Smit, 2009;. The social, economic, institutional and ecological context of the system determines access to assets and entitlements (Bohle et al, 1994;Kelly & Adger, 2000;Eakin et al, 2009). The availability and effectiveness of adaptive strategies thus depends on the biophysical and socioeconomic context (Liswanti et al, 2011;.…”

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Vulnerability and adaptive capacity of community food systems in the Peruvian Amazon: a case study from Panaillo

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AcknowledgementsThe community members of Panaillo taught me so much that extends far beyond this research and have inspired me to work harder and to be better. I deeply appreciate their friendship, their faith, and their endless supply of paranta shui. The quality, scope and meaning of this research are a direct result of their hard work. I am extremely grateful to my supervisor, Dr. James Ford, for serving as an invaluable mentor to me for several years. He introduced me to the concepts and politics surrounding climate change adaptation and has inspired me to continue working in this field for many years to come. He taught me to think critically about my own work and the work of others and I admire his commitment to community engagement and to resolving these 'wicked' problems. Through his guidance and example, I have learned how to make meaningful impacts in climate change adaptation research and I truly appreciate the freedom he has given me in carrying out this research.

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“…1B) or socioeconomic interactions between distant human systems, has long been studied by social scientists. Although such separate studies on distant socioeconomic or environmental interactions have produced useful insights, they also have led to oversights (Adger et al 2009, Eakin et al 2009 We use an integrated concept, telecoupling (Liu et al 2011), to encompass both socioeconomic and environmental interactions among coupled human and natural systems over distances (Fig. 1C).…”

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Framing Sustainability in a Telecoupled World

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ABSTRACT. Interactions between distant places are increasingly widespread and influential, often leading to unexpected outcomes with profound implications for sustainability. Numerous sustainability studies have been conducted within a particular place with little attention to the impacts of distant interactions on sustainability in multiple places. Although distant forces have been studied, they are usually treated as exogenous variables and feedbacks have rarely been considered. To understand and integrate various distant interactions better, we propose an integrated framework based on telecoupling, an umbrella concept that refers to socioeconomic and environmental interactions over distances. The concept of telecoupling is a logical extension of research on coupled human and natural systems, in which interactions occur within particular geographic locations. The telecoupling framework contains five major interrelated components, i.e., coupled human and natural systems, flows, agents, causes, and effects. We illustrate the framework using two examples of distant interactions associated with trade of agricultural commodities and invasive species, highlight the implications of the framework, and discuss research needs and approaches to move research on telecouplings forward. The framework can help to analyze system components and their interrelationships, identify research gaps, detect hidden costs and untapped benefits, provide a useful means to incorporate feedbacks as well as trade-offs and synergies across multiple systems (sending, receiving, and spillover systems), and improve the understanding of distant interactions and the effectiveness of policies for socioeconomic and environmental sustainability from local to global levels.

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“…an agricultural river basin, whereas in a globalised world, many different such entities may be linked through trade, as demonstrated in water footprint studies (Konar et al, 2016a). Capturing linkages to regional and global markets is critical to understanding cross-scale feedbacks because the more connected water resources are to markets via trade, the more sensitive they are to cross-scale feedbacks (Eakin et al, 2009;Pande and Sivapalan, 2016). For example, the 2010 drought in Russia and Kazakhstan led to a spike in the price of wheat on global markets .…”

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“…Given the complexity of the food system, it is challenging to develop effective food and water management strategies because policies can leak across regions, sectors and scales (Eakin et al, 2009;Hejazi et al, 2015;Meyfroidt et al, 2013). Models and decision tools exist to inform policymakers on these issues.…”

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A framework for modelling the complexities of food and water security under globalisation

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Abstract. We present a new framework for modelling the complexities of food and water security under globalisation. The framework sets out a method to capture regional and sectoral interdependencies and cross-scale feedbacks within the global food system that contribute to emergent water use patterns. The framework integrates aspects of existing models and approaches in the fields of hydrology and integrated assessment modelling. The core of the framework is a multi-agent network of city agents connected by infrastructural trade networks. Agents receive socio-economic and environmental constraint information from integrated assessment models and hydrological models respectively and simulate complex, socio-environmental dynamics that operate within those constraints. The emergent changes in food and water resources are aggregated and fed back to the original models with minimal modification of the structure of those models. It is our conviction that the framework presented can form the basis for a new wave of decision tools that capture complex socio-environmental change within our globalised world. In doing so they will contribute to illuminating pathways towards a sustainable future for humans, ecosystems and the water they share.

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Nested vulnerability: exploring cross-scale linkages and vulnerability teleconnections in Mexican and Vietnamese coffee systems

Cited by 132 publications

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Vulnerability and adaptive capacity of community food systems in the Peruvian Amazon: a case study from Panaillo

Vulnerability and adaptive capacity of community food systems in the Peruvian Amazon: a case study from Panaillo

Framing Sustainability in a Telecoupled World

A framework for modelling the complexities of food and water security under globalisation

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