Thomas E Downing
Biographic Data
| ID | 3700083 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas E Downing |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas E |
| FAMILY NAME | Downing |
| SIGNATURE | DOWNING T E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Duke University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Climate Change and World Food Security
Global Desertification
In this millennium, global drylands face a myriad of problems that present tough research, management, and policy challenges. Recent advances in dryland development, however, together with the integrative approaches of global change and sustainability science, suggest that concerns about land degradation, poverty, safeguarding biodiversity, and protecting the culture of 2.5 billion people can be confronted with renewed optimism. We review recent …
Managing the Earth
Although it is now widely recognized throughout societies around the world that humankind is straining the capacity of our planet, the responses of the many parties who need to come together to solve the myriad challenges have in general been sectoral in their approach. Yet the dangers presented by drawing successively on Earth's natural resources and exacerbating drought, water scarcity, hunger, health - indeed the viability of whol ecommunities…
Getting the Scale Right
This paper introduces broad concepts of vulnerability, food security and famine. It argues that the concepts and theories driving development and implementation of vulnerability assessment tools are related to their utility. The review concludes that socio-geographic scale is a key issue, and challenge. It analyses three vulnerability assessment (VA) methods, using Ethiopia as a case study. Facing the challenges of vulnerability assessment and ea…
Seasonal Forecasting of African Rainfall
Climate Change and Food Insecurity
World nutrition is improving
Introduction
Agricultural change, environment and economy
Drought and famine in Africa
Second International Famine Workshop, Cairo and El Minia, 26 October-2 November 1991
Reducing Hunger in the 1990s Third Annual Hunger Research Briefing and Exchange, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 4-6 April, 1990
Monitoring and Responding to Famine
The geographic and temporal scale of institutional responses to food crises suggests three levels of food information or famine early warning system: a seasonal national food balance, baseline data on household food poverty and estimates of vulnerability to climatic and economic variations, and targeted interventions based on individual entitlements and food deprivation. Stimulating the demand for food information, beyond the need to forecast fam…
Seasonal Forecasting of African Rainfall
Getting the Scale Right
This paper introduces broad concepts of vulnerability, food security and famine. It argues that the concepts and theories driving development and implementation of vulnerability assessment tools are related to their utility. The review concludes that socio-geographic scale is a key issue, and challenge. It analyses three vulnerability assessment (VA) methods, using Ethiopia as a case study. Facing the challenges of vulnerability assessment and ea…
Agricultural change, environment and economy
Monitoring and Responding to Famine
The geographic and temporal scale of institutional responses to food crises suggests three levels of food information or famine early warning system: a seasonal national food balance, baseline data on household food poverty and estimates of vulnerability to climatic and economic variations, and targeted interventions based on individual entitlements and food deprivation. Stimulating the demand for food information, beyond the need to forecast fam…
Drought and famine in Africa
Reducing Hunger in the 1990s Third Annual Hunger Research Briefing and Exchange, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 4-6 April, 1990
Monitoring and Responding to Famine
The geographic and temporal scale of institutional responses to food crises suggests three levels of food information or famine early warning system: a seasonal national food balance, baseline data on household food poverty and estimates of vulnerability to climatic and economic variations, and targeted interventions based on individual entitlements and food deprivation. Stimulating the demand for food information, beyond the need to forecast fam…
Drought and famine in Africa
Second International Famine Workshop, Cairo and El Minia, 26 October-2 November 1991
Agricultural change, environment and economy
World nutrition is improving
Introduction
Climate Change and Food Insecurity
Seasonal Forecasting of African Rainfall
Getting the Scale Right
This paper introduces broad concepts of vulnerability, food security and famine. It argues that the concepts and theories driving development and implementation of vulnerability assessment tools are related to their utility. The review concludes that socio-geographic scale is a key issue, and challenge. It analyses three vulnerability assessment (VA) methods, using Ethiopia as a case study. Facing the challenges of vulnerability assessment and ea…
Managing the Earth
Although it is now widely recognized throughout societies around the world that humankind is straining the capacity of our planet, the responses of the many parties who need to come together to solve the myriad challenges have in general been sectoral in their approach. Yet the dangers presented by drawing successively on Earth's natural resources and exacerbating drought, water scarcity, hunger, health - indeed the viability of whol ecommunities…
Global Desertification
In this millennium, global drylands face a myriad of problems that present tough research, management, and policy challenges. Recent advances in dryland development, however, together with the integrative approaches of global change and sustainability science, suggest that concerns about land degradation, poverty, safeguarding biodiversity, and protecting the culture of 2.5 billion people can be confronted with renewed optimism. We review recent …
Climate Change and World Food Security
Geography (10 works) · Agriculture (8 works) · Economics (8 works) · Business (6 works) · Food security (6 works) · Famine (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Natural resource economics (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works)