Gendered Responses to Drought in Yunnan Province, China

Su, Yufang; Bisht, Suman; Wilkes, Andreas; Pradhan, Neera Shrestha; Zou, Yahui; Song, Liang; Hyde, Kevin D.

doi:10.1659/mrd-journal-d-15-00041.1

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“…Research focusing on migration in dryland areas of Asia and in South America offers similar conclusions with respect to the gendered impacts, multidirectionality of responses, confounding impacts of deforestation and land degradation and the diversity of migration outcomes in response to droughts (Alam, 2015; Castro, 2019; Gray & Mueller, 2012b; Jülich, 2011; Kabir et al, 2018; Pires Ramos & Yamamoto, 2018; Su et al, 2017; Ye et al, 2011). In most regions, the bulk of studies focuses on drought effects on migration patterns within countries, but there is a notable cluster of studies on international drought‐related migration between Mexico and the United States.…”

Section: Existing Literature On Rural Migration Responses To Droughtmentioning

confidence: 89%

Population responses to the 1976 South Dakota drought: Insights for wider drought migration research

McLeman

Fontanella

Greig

et al. 2021

Population Space and Place

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Droughts on the North American Great Plains once led to elevated levels of out‐migration from rural areas. Large‐scale drought migration has not been observed since the 1950s due to changes in land management and agricultural systems that lessened farm‐level vulnerability to drought. Have droughts had less observable population impacts in subsequent decades? Here, we present findings from an investigation of an unusually severe, localised drought that struck eastern South Dakota in 1976 and caused staggering financial losses to farms. County‐level population and net migration rates show an anomalous increase of migration into drought‐affected counties by male migrants in the age group 30–35 years, likely being return migrants coming to help on the family farm. Newspaper archives and interviews with retired farmers suggest that few people moved away during the 1976 drought; most adapted instead by selling off their livestock herds and taking on greater debt. However, a commonly expressed view is that the drought ‘softened up’ area farmers, increasing their vulnerability to interest rates that quadrupled in the three following years. The early 1980s saw high rates of farm failures, unemployment and population decline in counties that experienced the worst impacts of the 1976 drought, suggesting the drought had a lag effect on population patterns. The findings from this case study are consistent with the ‘lessening hypothesis’ that social and technological innovations reduce economic and population impacts of recurrent climatic risks but elevate vulnerability to less frequent, unusually severe events.

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Section: Existing Literature On Rural Migration Responses To Droughtmentioning

confidence: 89%

Population responses to the 1976 South Dakota drought: Insights for wider drought migration research

McLeman

Fontanella

Greig

et al. 2021

Population Space and Place

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“…With yet a prevalent interest on agricultural practices, other resilience and adaptation studies have advanced understanding over the major social factors that enhance resilience and adaptation potentials (Carrico et al, 2019 ; Chen et al, 2014 ; Downard & Endter‐Wada, 2013 ; Echeverría, 2020 ; Kruse & Seidl, 2013 ; Laforge & McLeman, 2013 ; Li et al, 2012 ; Moore et al, 2018 ; Pendley et al, 2020 ; Ranjan, 2014 ; Sapountzaki & Daskalakis, 2018 ; Su et al, 2017 ; Wenger et al, 2017 ; Wiener et al, 2016 ; Wreford & Adger, 2010 ; Yila & Resurreccion, 2014 ). Socioeconomic status, previous experiences of drought, access to social capital, and gender are the most investigated aspects both at individual and household level.…”

Section: From Impacts To Recovery? Social Resilience and Adaptation T...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Most of the literature uses quantitative surveys, statistical analyses, and mathematical models to measure resilience levels and estimate the correlation between prevailing adaptation strategies and socioenvironmental characteristics of the area (Carrico et al, 2019 ; Chen et al, 2014 ; Du et al, 2018 ; Gonzales & Ajami, 2017 ; Hund et al, 2018 ; Lindsay et al, 2017 ; Moore et al, 2018 ; Pendley et al, 2020 ; Quiroga et al, 2011 ; Sapountzaki & Daskalakis, 2018 ; Su et al, 2017 ; van Duinen et al, 2016 ; Yates et al, 2013 ; Yila & Resurreccion, 2014 ). Sociohydrological studies apply numerical models to simulate adaptive behaviors of different stakeholders and their long‐term socioenvironmental dynamics (Hund et al, 2018 ; van Duinen et al, 2016 ; Wens et al, 2019 ).…”

Section: From Impacts To Recovery? Social Resilience and Adaptation T...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Drought and society: Scientific progress, blind spots, and future prospects

Savelli

Rusca

Cloke

et al. 2022

WIREs Climate Change

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Human activities have increasingly intensified the severity, frequency, and negative impacts of droughts in several regions across the world. This trend has led to broader scientific conceptualizations of drought risk that account for human actions and their interplays with natural systems. This review focuses on physical and engineering sciences to examine the way and extent to which these disciplines account for social processes in relation to the production and distribution of drought risk. We conclude that this research has significantly progressed in terms of recognizing the role of humans in reshaping drought risk and its socioenvironmental impacts. We note an increasing engagement with and contribution to understanding vulnerability, resilience, and adaptation patterns. Moreover, by advancing (socio)hydrological models, developing numerical indexes, and enhancing data processing, physical and engineering scientists have determined the extent of human influences in the propagation of drought hazard. However, these studies do not fully capture the complexities of anthropogenic transformations. Very often, they portray society as homogeneous, and decision-making processes as apolitical, thereby concealing the power relations underlying the production of drought and the uneven distribution of its impacts. The resistance in engaging explicitly with politics and social power-despite their major role in producing anthropogenic droughtcan be attributed to the strong influence of positivist epistemologies in engineering and physical sciences. We suggest that an active engagement with critical social sciences can further theorizations of drought risk by shedding light on the structural and historical systems of power that engender every socioenvironmental transformation.

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“…FTA research (Su et al 2017) showed that although women were traditionally excluded from being village "water managers" (responsible for water tank and pipe maintenance and domestic water allocation at the village level) and considered incapable in this area, they became increasingly active in A worker shells Brazil nuts, Puerto Maldonado, Madre de Dios, Peru.…”

Section: Climate Actionmentioning

confidence: 99%