ArticlePhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2023
Navigating polycrisis: long-run socio-cultural factors shape response to changing climate.
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- Navigating polycrisis: long-run socio-cultural factors shape response to changing climate.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Climate change adaptation needs a science of culture.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Review
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Abstract
Climate variability and natural hazards like floods and earthquakes can act as environmental shocks or socioecological stressors leading to instability and suffering throughout human history. Yet, societies experience a wide range of outcomes when facing such challenges: some suffer from social unrest, civil violence or complete collapse; others prove more resilient and maintain key social functions. We currently lack a clear, generally agreed-upon conceptual framework and evidentiary base to explore what causes these divergent outcomes. Here, we discuss efforts to develop such a framework through the Crisis Database (CrisisDB) programme. We illustrate that the impact of environmental stressors is mediated through extant cultural, political and economic structures that evolve over extended timescales (decades to centuries). These structures can generate high resilience to major shocks, facilitate positive adaptation, or, alternatively, undermine collective action and lead to unrest, violence and even societal collapse. By exposing the ways that different societies have reacted to crises over their lifetime, this framework can help identify the factors and complex social-ecological interactions that either bolster or undermine resilience to contemporary climate shocks. This article is part of the theme issue 'Climate change adaptation needs a science of culture'.
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