Social Vulnerability and Ecological Fragility: Building Bridges between Social and Natural Sciences Using the Irish Potato Famine as a Case Study

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Genetic erosion in crops: concept, research results and challenges (2009, background): “The potato blight epidemic in the 1840s in Ireland is perhaps the most well known, as it caused, together with the social conditions at the time, the death or displacement of 25% of the Irish population (Fraser, 2003).”
An adaptive learning process for developing and applying sustainability indicators with local communities (2006, methodology): “For example, Fraser (2003) used this approach to identify social and ecological indicators that help explain why Irish society in 1845 was so vulnerable to the outbreak of a relatively common potato blight.”
Resilience and the industrial food system: analyzing the impacts of agricultural industrialization on food system vulnerability (2015, background): “For instance, the landscape of the Irish Potato Famine1 was one of continuous potatoes, with small tightly packed fields and minimal land left uncultivated (Fraser 2003).”
Typologies of crop-drought vulnerability: an empirical analysis of the socio-economic factors that influence the sensitivity and resilience to drought of three major food crops in China (1961–2001) (2009, background): “The importance of socio-economic context is further backed up by literature that shows what conditions enable farmers to create more or less robust agricultural systems (Fraser, 2003, 2006, 2007; Mendelsohn, 2007; Mendelsohn et al., 2007; Reidsma et al., 2007; Sullivan and Meigh, 2005).”