Malnutrition and conflict in Eastern Africa. Impacts of resource variability on human security.

Autor/inn/en	Rowhani, Pedram; Degomme, Olivier; Cuha-Sapir, Debarati; Lambin, Eric F.
Titel	Malnutrition and conflict in Eastern Africa. Impacts of resource variability on human security. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Unterernährung und Konflikt in Ostafrika. Bedeutung der Ressourcenvariabilität für die menschliche Sicherheit.
Quelle	Aus: Scheffran, Jürgen (Hrsg.); Brzoska, Michael (Hrsg.); Brauch, Hans Günter (Hrsg.); Link, Peter Michael (Hrsg.); Schilling, Janpeter (Hrsg.): Climate change, human security and violent conflict. Challenges for societal stability. Berlin: Springer (2012) S. 559-571 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	Hexagon series on human and environmental security and peace. 8
Beigaben	Tabellen 4; Karten 3
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Sammelwerksbeitrag
ISBN	978-3-642-28625-4
DOI	10.1007/978-3-642-28626-1_27
Schlagwörter	Konflikt; Kind; Mensch; Indikator; Boden; Erosion; Klimawandel; Ländlicher Raum; Ernährung; Unterernährung; Lebensbedingungen; Sozioökonomischer Faktor; Umwelt; Ökosystem; Konferenzschrift; Regionaler Faktor; Sicherheit; Afrika; Ostafrika; Subsahara-Afrika
Abstract	"Changes in climate, along with anthropogenic pressures, impact vegetation productivity and the related ecosystem services on which human security relies. The impacts of these climate changes on society will be experienced both through changes in mean conditions over long time periods and through increases in extreme events. Uncertainties remain about how short-term changes in ecosystems influence human security. Most studies analyzing the relationship between human security and climate are at the country level, ignoring fine-grained spatial heterogeneity in local climatic and socio-economic conditions. In this chapter, detailed spatio-temporal information is extracted from wide-swathe satellite data (MODIS) and used to examine the impact of interannual variability in ecosystems on malnutrition and armed conflict in eastern Africa, while controlling for other natural and socio-economic factors. The analysis was performed at subnational and village scales. At the regional level, ecosystem variability was associated with malnutrition. This relationship was not statistically significant at the village level. At both levels of analysis, our results indicated that armed conflicts were more likely in regions with more vegetation. Results suggested that in eastern Africa increased levels of malnutrition were related to armed conflicts. They also showed the importance, in low-income countries, of local economic activity and accessibility to reduce the likelihood of malnutrition and insecurity." (excerpt).
Erfasst von	GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Mannheim
Update	2013/3