ArticleEnvironment systems & decisions2020
Lessons from the past, policies for the future: resilience and sustainability in past crises.
Article in Environment systems & decisions, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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6 citing papers in PubMed.
- No Place to Hide? Regional Resilience and Vulnerability to Global Catastrophic Risk.Global challenges (Hoboken, NJ) · 2026Review
- An aspirational approach to planetary futures.Nature · 2025Review
- The Anthropocene condition: evolving through social-ecological transformations.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024Review
- Community resilience to pandemics: An assessment framework developed based on the review of COVID-19 literature.International journal of disaster risk reduction : IJDRR · 2022Review
- Response and resilience of Asian agrifood systems to COVID-19: An assessment across twenty-five countries and four regional farming and food systems.Agricultural systems · 2021Article
- COVID-19 impacts on agriculture and food systems in Nepal: Implications for SDGs.Agricultural systems · 2021Article
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Abstract
This article surveys some examples of the ways past societies have responded to environmental stressors such as famine, war, and pandemic. We show that people in the past did think about system recovery, but only on a sectoral scale. They did perceive challenges and respond appropriately, but within cultural constraints and resource limitations. Risk mitigation was generally limited in scope, localized, and again determined by cultural logic that may not necessarily have been aware of more than symptoms, rather than actual causes. We also show that risk-managing and risk-mitigating arrangements often favored the vested interests of elites rather than the population more widely, an issue policy makers today still face.
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