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2. Understanding Famine

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Erschienen in: Contemporary Famine Analysis

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

This chapter discusses how famine can be defined and operationalized. While acknowledging the benefits of understanding famine as an ongoing process, the chapter subscribes to an understanding of famine as a discrete event identifiable by an increase in mortality caused by mass starvation and diseases. Such an understanding is necessary, it is argued, to clearly delineated famine analysis from other studies of extreme destitution. Most famine approaches that will be discussed in the Brief are based on an understanding of famine as a discrete event. The chapter also presents the recent advances in the operationalization of famine. These efforts culminated in 2011 with the first ever declaration of famine based on a formal and universally accepted multidimensional system for famine diagnosis.

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Titel: Understanding Famine
verfasst von: Olivier Rubin
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Buch: Contemporary Famine Analysis
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-27304-4

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-27306-8

Copyright-Jahr: 2016
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27306-8_2