Are shocks becoming more frequent or intense?

Policymakers, practitioners, and researchers frequently cite an increase in shocks around the world as a reason for focusing on resilience. But have shocks actually increased or become more severe and far-reaching? What does the landscape of shocks look like? Shocks are external, short-term deviatio...

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Autores principales: Zseleczky, Laura, Yosef, Sivan
Formato: Capítulo de libro
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: International Food Policy Research Institute 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/151056
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description Policymakers, practitioners, and researchers frequently cite an increase in shocks around the world as a reason for focusing on resilience. But have shocks actually increased or become more severe and far-reaching? What does the landscape of shocks look like? Shocks are external, short-term deviations from long-term trends—deviations that have substantial negative effects (which may be short-lived or long lasting) on people’s state of well-being, level of assets, livelihoods, safety, and ability to withstand future shocks. Many shocks are unexpected, but in some cases, such as drought or conflict, the shock may be expected year after year although the individual, community, or system lacks the resilience to prepare for or mitigate it. In other cases, such as climate change, the general shock could be expected but the effect on a particular individual, community, or area could be unexpected.
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spelling CGSpace1510562025-11-06T04:11:54Z Are shocks becoming more frequent or intense? Zseleczky, Laura Yosef, Sivan economic shock nutrition security environmental factors shock economic development natural disasters flooding food safety malnutrition drought food security weather conflicts food prices resilience climate change Policymakers, practitioners, and researchers frequently cite an increase in shocks around the world as a reason for focusing on resilience. But have shocks actually increased or become more severe and far-reaching? What does the landscape of shocks look like? Shocks are external, short-term deviations from long-term trends—deviations that have substantial negative effects (which may be short-lived or long lasting) on people’s state of well-being, level of assets, livelihoods, safety, and ability to withstand future shocks. Many shocks are unexpected, but in some cases, such as drought or conflict, the shock may be expected year after year although the individual, community, or system lacks the resilience to prepare for or mitigate it. In other cases, such as climate change, the general shock could be expected but the effect on a particular individual, community, or area could be unexpected. 2014 2024-08-01T02:55:04Z 2024-08-01T02:55:04Z Book Chapter https://hdl.handle.net/10568/151056 en https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896296787 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Zseleczky, Laura and Yosef, Sivan. 2014. Are shocks becoming more frequent or intense? In Resilience for food and nutrition security. Eds. Fan, Shenggen; Pandya-Lorch, Rajul and Yosef, Sivan. Chapter 2. Pp. 9-17. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/151056
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food safety
malnutrition
drought
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weather
conflicts
food prices
resilience
climate change
Zseleczky, Laura
Yosef, Sivan
Are shocks becoming more frequent or intense?
title Are shocks becoming more frequent or intense?
title_full Are shocks becoming more frequent or intense?
title_fullStr Are shocks becoming more frequent or intense?
title_full_unstemmed Are shocks becoming more frequent or intense?
title_short Are shocks becoming more frequent or intense?
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topic economic shock
nutrition security
environmental factors
shock
economic development
natural disasters
flooding
food safety
malnutrition
drought
food security
weather
conflicts
food prices
resilience
climate change
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