Urban and peri-urban agriculture and its implication on food and nutrition insecurity in northern Ghana: a socio-spatial analysis along the urban –rural continuum
AbstractFood and nutrition insecurity remains a challenge in sub-Saharan Africa. Several studies have examined food and nutrition insecurity in urban or rural areas but have not captured the whole continuum. Between November and December 2013, 240 households were surveyed along the urban –rural continuum in Northern Ghana. The study objective was to understand the socio-spatial dynamics of household food and nutrition insecurity and to investigate the role played by urban, peri-urban and rural agriculture. The study found that there was more involvement in agriculture in rural are as compared to peri-urban areas and urba...
Source: Population and Environment - September 1, 2018 Category: Environmental Health Source Type: research
Heat and adult health in China
AbstractGiven projected increases in the frequency of precipitation and temperature extremes in China, we examine the extent adults may be vulnerable to climate anomalies. We link nutrition, health, and economic data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (1989 –2011) to gridded climate data to identify which socioeconomic outcomes are particularly susceptible, including adult underweight incidence, body mass index, dietary intake, physical activity, illness, income, and food prices. We find warm temperatures augment the probability of being underweight among adults, with a particularly large impact for the elderly (...
Source: Population and Environment - September 1, 2018 Category: Environmental Health Source Type: research
An exploration of intergenerational differences in wilderness values
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Source: Population and Environment - September 1, 2018 Category: Environmental Health Source Type: research
In the light of change: a mixed methods investigation of climate perceptions and the instrumental record in northern Sweden
In this study, Sami reindeer herder interviews and observational weather data were combined to provide a comprehensive description of climate changes in Northern Sweden. The interviewees described warmer winters, shorter snow seasons and cold periods, and increased temperature variability. Weather data supported three of these four observed changes; the only change not evident in the weather data was increased temperature variability. Winter temperatures increased, the number of days in cold periods was significantly reduced, and some stations displayed a 2 month-shorter snow cover season. Interviewees reported that these ...
Source: Population and Environment - September 1, 2018 Category: Environmental Health Source Type: research
Correction to: Emplaced social vulnerability to technological disasters: Southeast Louisiana and the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill
The original version of this article inadvertently did not include the following Acknowledgement of funding (Source: Population and Environment)
Source: Population and Environment - September 1, 2018 Category: Environmental Health Source Type: research
In the light of change: a mixed methods investigation of climate perceptions and the instrumental record in northern Sweden
In this study, Sami reindeer herder interviews and observational weather data were combined to provide a comprehensive description of climate changes in Northern Sweden. The interviewees described warmer winters, shorter snow seasons and cold periods, and increased temperature variability. Weather data supported three of these four observed changes; the only change not evident in the weather data was increased temperature variability. Winter temperatures increased, the number of days in cold periods was significantly reduced, and some stations displayed a 2 month-shorter snow cover season. Interviewees reported that these ...
Source: Population and Environment - August 28, 2018 Category: Environmental Health Source Type: research
Urban and peri-urban agriculture and its implication on food and nutrition insecurity in northern Ghana: a socio-spatial analysis along the urban –rural continuum
AbstractFood and nutrition insecurity remains a challenge in sub-Saharan Africa. Several studies have examined food and nutrition insecurity in urban or rural areas but have not captured the whole continuum. Between November and December 2013, 240 households were surveyed along the urban –rural continuum in Northern Ghana. The study objective was to understand the socio-spatial dynamics of household food and nutrition insecurity and to investigate the role played by urban, peri-urban and rural agriculture. The study found that there was more involvement in agriculture in rural are as compared to peri-urban areas and urba...
Source: Population and Environment - July 13, 2018 Category: Environmental Health Source Type: research
Coordinated approaches to large-scale movements of people: contributions of the Paris Agreement and the Global Compacts for migration and on refugees
AbstractIt is not yet clear how climate change will affect the structural constraints and spatial and social complexity that affect population movements in the future. Today, countries of origin, transit, and destination have reached a juncture. The UNFCCC Paris Agreement adds value to decisions these countries face by helping them explore possible scenarios for impacts that include large movements of people that could be associated with a rise in global average temperatures between 1.5 and 2 °C above pre-industrial levels. Climate policy and mainstream migration and refugee policy are developing recommendations by the ...
Source: Population and Environment - June 7, 2018 Category: Environmental Health Source Type: research
Thresholds in climate migration
This article reviews and makes linkages between existing research in climate adaptation, migration system dynamics, residential preferences, and risk perception to identify and explore the functioning and importance of thresholds. Parochial examples from the author ’s published research on climate adaptation and migration in rural North America are used to illustrate. Six types of thresholds in response to climate hazards are identified: (1) Adaptation becomes necessary; (2) Adaptation becomes ineffective; (3) Substantive changes in land use/livelihoods beco me necessary; (4) In situ adaptation fails, migration ensues; (...
Source: Population and Environment - June 1, 2018 Category: Environmental Health Source Type: research
Coordinated approaches to large-scale movements of people: contributions of the Paris Agreement and the Global Compacts for migration and on refugees
AbstractIt is not yet clear how climate change will affect the structural constraints and spatial and social complexity that affect population movements in the future. Today, countries of origin, transit, and destination have reached a juncture. The UNFCCC Paris Agreement adds value to decisions these countries face by helping them explore possible scenarios for impacts that include large movements of people that could be associated with a rise in global average temperatures between 1.5 and 2 °C above pre-industrial levels. Climate policy and mainstream migration and refugee policy are developing recommendations by the ...
Source: Population and Environment - June 1, 2018 Category: Environmental Health Source Type: research
The uneven geography of research on “environmental migration”
We describe the methodologies used in the studies and present a typology of environmental hazards. Our results show that research on environmental migration is mainly done in countries of the Global South, whereas climate science research in general is focused on countries of the Global North. We contend that the peculiar geography of environmental migration cannot be explained solely by the uneven vulnerability of southern populations to the environment. It must also be understood through the lens of post-colonial and securitization studies as the result of a framing of “environmental ref ugees” (and refugees in gener...
Source: Population and Environment - June 1, 2018 Category: Environmental Health Source Type: research
The evolution and impacts of Graeme Hugo ’s environmental migration research
AbstractDrawing on Graeme ’s published and unpublished work, as well as his long-term collaborations with two of us, we identify strands of thought that Graeme kept returning to and refining over the course of his career. We trace the evolution of four key points that he often reiterated: (1) The migration-environment rela tionship is complex and oversimplified; (2) Migration is both a consequence and a cause of environmental change; (3) Migration is just one possible response to environmental change; and (4) Displacement is just one type of migration response. We briefly map his impact on environmental migration scho la...
Source: Population and Environment - June 1, 2018 Category: Environmental Health Source Type: research
The effects of climate change on the geography and timing of human mobility
AbstractHuman mobility over different distances and time scales has long been associated with environmental change, and the idea of climate change is now affecting movement in new ways. In this paper, we discuss three cases from the South Pacific to explain the ways anticipated climate futures are changing mobility in the present. First, we examine village relocation in response to coastal erosion and inundation in Fiji, drawing on our study of the unfolding experience of Narikoso village in Kadavu Province. In contrast to this spatially constrained process of permanent relocation, we examine the spatially extended yet tem...
Source: Population and Environment - June 1, 2018 Category: Environmental Health Source Type: research
Special issue dedicated to the memory of Professor Graeme Hugo
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Source: Population and Environment - June 1, 2018 Category: Environmental Health Source Type: research
Correction to: Emplaced social vulnerability to technological disasters: Southeast Louisiana and the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill
The original version of this article inadvertently did not include the following Acknowledgement of funding (Source: Population and Environment)
Source: Population and Environment - June 1, 2018 Category: Environmental Health Source Type: research
