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DOI | 10.1038/s41893-018-0078-0 |
The timing and causes of famines in Europe | |
Alfani, Guido1,2; Grada, Cormac O.3 | |
2018-06-01 | |
发表期刊 | NATURE SUSTAINABILITY
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ISSN | 2398-9629 |
出版年 | 2018 |
卷号 | 1期号:6页码:283-288 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | Italy; Ireland |
英文摘要 | Studies of modern famines tend to consider them 'man-made', resulting from war or from adverse shocks to food entitlements. This view has increasingly been applied to historical famines, against the earlier Malthusian orthodoxy. We use a novel dataset and temporal scan analysis to identify periods when famines were particularly frequent in Europe, from ca. 1250 to the present. Up to 1710, the main clusters of famines occurred in periods of historically high population density. This relationship disappears after 1710. We analyse in detail the famines in England, France and Italy during 1300-1850, and find strong evidence that before 1710 high population pressure on resources was by far the most frequent remote cause of famines (while the proximate cause was almost invariably meteorological). We conclude, in contrast with the currently prevailing view, that most preindustrial famines were the result of production, not distribution issues. Only after 1710 did man-made famines become prevalent. |
领域 | 资源环境 |
收录类别 | SSCI |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000439237500011 |
WOS关键词 | CLIMATE-CHANGE ; TEMPERATURE ; MORTALITY ; PLAGUE ; CRISES |
WOS类目 | Green & Sustainable Science & Technology ; Environmental Sciences ; Environmental Studies |
WOS研究方向 | Science & Technology - Other Topics ; Environmental Sciences & Ecology |
引用统计 | |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/289620 |
专题 | 资源环境科学 |
作者单位 | 1.Bocconi Univ, Dondena Ctr, Milan, Italy; 2.Bocconi Univ, IGIER, Milan, Italy; 3.Univ Coll Dublin, Sch Econ, Dublin, Ireland |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Alfani, Guido,Grada, Cormac O.. The timing and causes of famines in Europe[J]. NATURE SUSTAINABILITY,2018,1(6):283-288. |
APA | Alfani, Guido,&Grada, Cormac O..(2018).The timing and causes of famines in Europe.NATURE SUSTAINABILITY,1(6),283-288. |
MLA | Alfani, Guido,et al."The timing and causes of famines in Europe".NATURE SUSTAINABILITY 1.6(2018):283-288. |
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