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Title: Climate change, social vulnerability and child nutrition in South Asia
Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Year: 2020
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Abstract: Global economic wellbeing and food security have improved considerably over the past 50 years but scholars are concerned that climate change will exacerbate recent trends towards deterioration, particularly for the world’s most vulnerable populations (Burke et al. 2015). Among the most vulnerable are those living in tropical low- and middle-income countries, where baseline temperatures are high and community resources are often few (Mora et al. 2017; Frame et al. 2017; IPCC 2014). In these areas, population health and well-being are already threatened by rising global temperatures and increasingly variable rainfall patterns (Mora et al. 2017; Challinor et al. 2014; Spears et al. 2018), which in turn puts children’s food security and nutritional health at particular risk. Appropriate nutrition in children under five years old is recognized as central to development at the individual, national, and international level (Horton 2013), as chronic malnutrition in early childhood has been shown to cause irreparable damage to immune systems and cognitive and physical development (Black 2013, Shively 2017, Alderman 2006). Understanding the complex interactions between climate, nutrition, and social vulnerability in regions facing nutritional shortfalls is the key to developing appropriate policy and mitigation measures as the climate continues to change (Frame et al. 2017). This study is designed to assess the impact of temperature and precipitation anomalies from the last four decades on child nutritional health in South Asia (Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Nepal), with consideration towards particular social vulnerability among demographic groups.
Url: https://clarkgray.web.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/7133/2020/11/McMahonGray_Nov2020.pdf
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Authors: Mcmahon, Kathryn; Gray, Clark
Institution: University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Department: Department of Geography
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Data Collections: IPUMS Global Health - DHS
Topics: Health
Countries: Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan