What Is the Vulnerability of a Food System to Global Environmental Change
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4239454 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Polly J Ericksen, Polly Ericksen (0000-0002-5775-7691, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | art14 |
| Publication date | 2008-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Conservation Ecology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1195-5449 • E-ISSN: 1708-3087 |
| Publisher | Resilience Alliance (PUBLISHER • CA) |
| DOI | 10.5751/es-02475-130214 |
| OpenAlex | W127515839 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 74 |
| References cited | 31 |
Assessing the vulnerability of broadly described food systems to global environmental change requires a new, synthetic approach. Food systems can best be conceptualized as the integration of humans and the environment or coupled social-ecological systems. However, much of the existing literature on vulnerability assessment focuses on either social or ecological systems, and conceptual gaps limit the holistic evaluation of linked systems in which both social and ecosystem outcomes are important. I suggest an approach with which to integrate factors across a food system to assess the system's vulnerability to environmental change by focusing on key processes and system characteristics. However, the multiple objectives of different actors in food systems make tradeoffs inevitable and complicate the evaluation of vulnerability. Further development and use of this approach is a promising avenue for future research because empirical evidence is needed to further elaborate these understandings
Agriculture · Biology · Climate change · Computer security · Environmental change · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Food security · Food systems · Geography · Psychological resilience · Vulnerability assessment · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Climate change impacts on agriculture · Computer Science · Environmental Science · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations · Ecology
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