“…The social constructivism school of thought has influenced contemporary climate-change vulnerability assessments. The rationale of this research tradition is that social stressors (internal conditions) (e.g., vested interests, institutional factors, governance structures, unequal access to property and resources, corruption and nepotism, elite interests, marginalization, power relations, and other socio-economic and political factors) also determine the state of a system of analysis (Turner et al, 2003;Ford and Smit, 2004;Wisner et al, 2003;Füssel, 2005Füssel, , 2007Schröter et al, 2005;Füssel and Klein, 2006;Tonmoy et al, 2014;Pearse, 2016;Arifeen and Eriksen, 2019;Barnett, 2020;Mikulewicz, 2020;Scoville-Simonds et al, 2020;Eriksen et al, 2021). This interpretation of vulnerability incorporates human dimensions and food-security studies have widely used it to explain the implications of both physical and socioeconomic circumstances in unfolding famines (Wisner, 1976;Sen, 1981;Watts and Bohle, 1993;Downing, 2003;Füssel, 2005).…”