Social resilience to changes in climate over the past 5000 years DOI Creative Commons
Liang Emlyn Yang, Mara Weinelt, Ingmar Unkel

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Environmental Research Letters, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 19(12), P. 120201 - 120201

Published: Nov. 29, 2024

Abstract Increasing numbers of studies are investigating the phenomenon social resistance, particularly instances stability or prosperity in face climatic–environmental stresses over a long period. This emerging research field climate resilience explores capability socio-ecological systems to cope with stresses, maintain functions, and evolve into more desirable within stressful climatic environmental conditions. synthetic review examines historical archaeological on especially concentrating human societies past 5000 years. It highlights that have had degree general various spatial temporal scales, which is reflected through evidence population growth, agriculture development, settlement expansion continuing social-economic development hazard-prone Many cases considered here demonstrate manifests as profile loop scale relationships different systems. Multiple diverse measures been identified being helpful enhancing level systems, e.g. improvement infrastructure, knowledge technology strengthening organization cooperation. emphasizes necessity priority deepening our understanding long-term dynamics, it calls for holistic resiliology, targeting effective efficient well their transference across time space.

Language: Английский

The 2024 state of the climate report: Perilous times on planet Earth DOI Creative Commons
William J. Ripple, Christopher Wolf,

Jillian W. Gregg

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BioScience, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Oct. 8, 2024

Language: Английский

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Institutionalising Multispecies Justice DOI Creative Commons
Danielle Celermajer, Anthony Burke, Stefanie Fishel

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Published: Jan. 29, 2025

Multispecies Justice (MSJ) is a theory and practice seeking to correct the defects making dominant theories of justice incapable responding current emerging planetary disruptions extinctions. starts with assumption that not limited humans but includes all Earth others, relationships enable their functioning flourishing. This Element describes imagines set institutions, across scales in different spheres, respect, revere, care for make life on possible allow natural entities, included, flourish. It draws attention prefigurative work happening within societies otherwise dominated by institutions characterised Injustice, demonstrating historical ongoing practices MSJ contexts. then sketches speculative possibilities expand existing institutional reforms are more fundamentally transformational. title also available as Open Access Cambridge Core.

Language: Английский

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Navigating polycrisis: long-run socio-cultural factors shape response to changing climate DOI Creative Commons
Daniel Hoyer, James S. Bennett, Jenny Reddish

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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 378(1889)

Published: Sept. 18, 2023

Climate variability and natural hazards like floods earthquakes can act as environmental shocks or socioecological stressors leading to instability suffering throughout human history. Yet, societies experience a wide range of outcomes when facing such challenges: some suffer from social unrest, civil violence complete collapse; others prove more resilient maintain key functions. We currently lack clear, generally agreed-upon conceptual framework evidentiary base explore what causes these divergent outcomes. Here, we discuss efforts develop through the Crisis Database (CrisisDB) programme. illustrate that impact is mediated extant cultural, political economic structures evolve over extended timescales (decades centuries). These generate high resilience major shocks, facilitate positive adaptation, or, alternatively, undermine collective action lead even societal collapse. By exposing ways different have reacted crises their lifetime, this help identify factors complex social-ecological interactions either bolster contemporary climate shocks. This article part theme issue 'Climate change adaptation needs science culture'.

Language: Английский

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A multiscale inflammatory map: linking individual stress to societal dysfunction DOI Creative Commons
Yoram Vodovotz, Julia Arciero, Paul F. M. J. Verschure

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Frontiers in Science, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 1

Published: March 12, 2024

As populations worldwide show increasing levels of stress, understanding emerging links among inflammation, cognition, and behavior is vital to human planetary health. We hypothesize that inflammation a multiscale driver connecting stressors affect individuals large-scale societal dysfunction and, ultimately, planetary-scale environmental impacts. propose “central map” hypothesis explain how the brain regulates impairs emotion, action. According our hypothesis, these interdependent inflammatory neural processes, inter-individual transmission environmental, infectious, behavioral stressors—amplified via high-throughput digital global communications—can culminate in multiscale, runaway, feed-forward process could detrimentally decision-making at scale, ultimately impairing ability address same stressors. This perspective provide non-intuitive explanations for behaviors relationships cells, organisms, communities potentially including population-level responses as diverse climate change, conflicts, COVID-19 pandemic. To illustrate elucidate its mechanistic underpinnings, we present mathematical model applicable individual test control, healing, implications transmission, intervention (e.g., lifestyle modification or medication), resilience. Future research needed validate model’s assumptions conclusions against empirical benchmarks expand factors/variables employed. Our illustrates need multilayered, stress mitigation interventions, measures, precision therapeutics, ecosystem design. analysis shows coordinated, interdisciplinary, international effort understand nature stress. Doing so would inform creation interventions improve individuals’ lives; enhance communities’ resilience stress; mitigate adverse effects on world.

Language: Английский

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Business survival strategies in a polycrisis: SME experiences from Beirut, Lebanon DOI Creative Commons

Jamal Maalouf,

Jason Miklian, Kristian Hoelscher

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Business Horizons, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: March 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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Climate change adaptation needs a science of culture DOI Creative Commons
Anne C. Pisor, J. Stephen Lansing, Kate Magargal

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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 378(1889)

Published: Sept. 18, 2023

There is global consensus that we must immediately prioritize climate change adaptation—change in response to or anticipation of risks from change. Some researchers and policymakers urge ‘transformative change’, a complete break past practices, yet report having little data on whether new practices reduce the communities face, even over short term. However, have some leads: human long generated solutions changing climate, scientists who study culture examples effective persistent solutions. This theme issue discusses cultural adaptation change, this paper, review how processes biological adaptation, including innovation, modification, selective retention transmission, shape landscapes decision-makers care about—from which emerge communities, spread adaptations, regional collective action. We introduce comprehensive portal models outline ways forward. article part ‘Climate needs science culture’.

Language: Английский

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Young adults from disadvantaged groups experience more stress and deterioration in mental health associated with polycrisis DOI Creative Commons
Weronika Kałwak, Dorota Węziak‐Białowolska, Anna Wendołowska

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Scientific Reports, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 14(1)

Published: April 16, 2024

Abstract The recent polycrisis (COVID-19, Ukraine war, climate change, economic crisis) has been associated with mental health through cumulative stress, young people being particularly vulnerable. We surveyed 403 college students from Poland to examine their psychological responses the experienced crises. results showed that was worse of disadvantaged groups (based on gender, sexual orientation, and financial situation) compared other students, in four areas: sense proximity crises, stress caused by responsibility for mitigating experiencing everyday moral dilemmas regarding These adults also suffered more terms negative affectivity, depressive symptoms, subjective physical health. Our findings suggest when discussing public perspectives, it is important consider consequences its greater impact groups.

Language: Английский

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POLYCRISIS AND ‘UNNATURAL RAIN’ IN URBAN NEIGHBOURHOODS OF BENGAL: The Twin Cities and Issues of Peripheral Centrality DOI Open Access
Rahul Singh

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Jan. 10, 2025

Abstract Emerging urban studies scholarship has shown how cities are not fraught with one single crisis but in a state of polycrisis, the global South's experience polycrisis differing significantly crises originate and strategies employed to deal them. Urban Bengal's originates imaginations London eighteenth century, taken on different shape as inhabitants find modes survival. Today, broader context climate change affecting twin Bengal, this article explores Howrah–Kolkata relation lack peripheral centrality that generated sense Bengal. I begin by contextualizing rain its ‘unnatural’ for periphery observed recent years. trace an aqueous history region growing socio‐economic inequalities between take Howrah Park Street neighbourhoods from Kolkata respectively locate have been experiencing dealing with. Here, use class gender two frames map issues mobility, insecurities, solidarities infrastructural access necessary survival urban. conclude arguing reworking cities’ relations centralizing peripheries like Howrah, both lessen pressure core—Kolkata.

Language: Английский

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Gendered transformations: rethinking climate resilience building in northwest Ghana DOI
Charity Osei‐Amponsah, Andrew Emmanuel Okem,

Esther Wahabu

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SN Social Sciences, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 5(3)

Published: March 10, 2025

Language: Английский

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How do crises spread? The polycrisis and crisis transmission DOI Creative Commons
Malte Brosig

Global Sustainability, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 8

Published: Jan. 1, 2025

Abstract Non-technical summary The term polycrisis refers to simultaneous and interconnected crises that amplify each other's effects. Understanding how spread is crucial for understanding a operates. This article explores the conditions under which transmit across systems. By examining various theories – from complexity thinking epidemiology it discusses importance of several conducive system resilience in shaping crisis transmission. concept underscores need interdisciplinary approaches address global challenges. identifying spread, policymakers researchers can better anticipate mitigate their impacts, fostering face growing systemic risks. Technical builds on assumption are interconnected. suggests important processes transmission operate. However, beyond initial modelling we do not know much about works. For this reason, makes conceptual contribution by presenting variety It applies an eclectic inter-disciplinary approach, diversity arguments addressing when spread. These include but limited to: conceptualizing boundaries large impact events, neofunctionalism, rational choice theory, assemblage thinking, epidemiological evolutionary approaches. Lastly, also depends ability cope with thus plays role. Social media Crisis informs Discontinuing helps building resilience.

Language: Английский

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