TY - CHAP
T1 - Climate change, food security and population health in the Anthropocene
AU - BUTLER, Colin
AU - MCFARLANE, Ro
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - The Anthropocene is commonly seen as a period of great potential to further improve human health and other aspects of human well-being, including food security, reflected, for example, by the Sustainable Development Goals. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is similarly generally optimistic, including with regard to its global food security outlook, apart from far in the future if global temperatures reach 5°C above preindustrial levels. Similarly, the Food and Agricultural Organization has reported falling hunger despite rising global food prices. We challenge this optimism, analyzing datasets and the wider literature. We may be flying blind toward a mountain.
AB - The Anthropocene is commonly seen as a period of great potential to further improve human health and other aspects of human well-being, including food security, reflected, for example, by the Sustainable Development Goals. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is similarly generally optimistic, including with regard to its global food security outlook, apart from far in the future if global temperatures reach 5°C above preindustrial levels. Similarly, the Food and Agricultural Organization has reported falling hunger despite rising global food prices. We challenge this optimism, analyzing datasets and the wider literature. We may be flying blind toward a mountain.
UR - http://www.mendeley.com/research/climate-change-food-security-population-health-anthropocene
U2 - 10.1016/B978-0-12-809665-9.09745-7
DO - 10.1016/B978-0-12-809665-9.09745-7
M3 - Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
SN - 9780128096659
T3 - Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene
SP - 453
EP - 459
BT - Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene
A2 - Dellasala, Dominick
A2 - Goldstein, Michael
PB - Elsevier
CY - Oxford, United Kingdom
ER -