A proposal for measuring resilience in a risky world

Much of the world’s chronically poor and malnourished population lives in an increasingly volatile world. The dangerous nexus of climate change, rapid population growth, conflict, and economic stagnation has already pushed several poor regions into states of permanent crisis, even as the rest of the...

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Main Authors: Barrett, Christopher B., Headey, Derek D.
Format: Book Chapter
Language:Inglés
Published: International Food Policy Research Institute 2014
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/150880
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description Much of the world’s chronically poor and malnourished population lives in an increasingly volatile world. The dangerous nexus of climate change, rapid population growth, conflict, and economic stagnation has already pushed several poor regions into states of permanent crisis, even as the rest of the world has enjoyed unprecedented progress against poverty. This disturbing state of affairs, along with our expanded knowledge of the intimate interactions between short-term shocks and long-run development, has catalyzed widespread interest in resilience building and in what a resilience framework implies for our understanding of the causes and consequences of acute vulnerability to natural and man-made disasters. We propose that the development community invest in a new multicountry system of sentinel sites to undertake long-term, high-frequency measurement and analysis of individual, household, and community resilience in the world’s most vulnerable regions.
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spelling CGSpace1508802025-11-06T03:58:25Z A proposal for measuring resilience in a risky world Barrett, Christopher B. Headey, Derek D. economic shock nutrition security environmental factors shock economic development indicators measurement malnutrition food security food prices resilience Much of the world’s chronically poor and malnourished population lives in an increasingly volatile world. The dangerous nexus of climate change, rapid population growth, conflict, and economic stagnation has already pushed several poor regions into states of permanent crisis, even as the rest of the world has enjoyed unprecedented progress against poverty. This disturbing state of affairs, along with our expanded knowledge of the intimate interactions between short-term shocks and long-run development, has catalyzed widespread interest in resilience building and in what a resilience framework implies for our understanding of the causes and consequences of acute vulnerability to natural and man-made disasters. We propose that the development community invest in a new multicountry system of sentinel sites to undertake long-term, high-frequency measurement and analysis of individual, household, and community resilience in the world’s most vulnerable regions. 2014 2024-08-01T02:54:09Z 2024-08-01T02:54:09Z Book Chapter https://hdl.handle.net/10568/150880 en https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896296787 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Barrett, Christopher B. and Headey, Derek D. 2014. A proposal for measuring resilience in a risky world. In Resilience for food and nutrition security. Eds. Fan, Shenggen; Pandya-Lorch, Rajul and Yosef, Sivan. Chapter 20. Pp. 187-194. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/150880
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food prices
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A proposal for measuring resilience in a risky world
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nutrition security
environmental factors
shock
economic development
indicators
measurement
malnutrition
food security
food prices
resilience
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