A very useful piece of research for our community, I think its worthwhile reading it properly and making a few notes.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...-caused-unrest-shortages-food-water-fuel.html
Chaos Map shows where deaths caused by unrest over shortages of food, water or fuel has happened across the world since 2005 as authors say future will only be more violent
By Jack Elsom For Mailonline
Deaths from violent unrest are set to spike in the coming years, according to researchers who have produced a 'Chaos Map' which lays bare the fallout of devastating famines and droughts.
The team from Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, plotted more than 1,300 deaths between 2005 and 2017 which were caused unrest sparked by natural resource shortages.
Conflict, uprisings, looting, riots and suicides were tracked across the globe and investigated to ascertain if they had been triggered by food, water or fuel insecurity.
The number of fatalities was also unearthed, and detailed on an interactive map where readers can compare how each country fared across the 12-year time frame.
Venezuela was the hardest hit by violent unrest in 2017, where 92 deaths were caused by its resource crisis.
Not a single country in the Western world suffered fatalaties from shortage-related violence.
Dr Davide Natalini and Professor Aled Jones, of Anglia Ruskin University, scanned reports covering food, water, and fuel insecurity shocks published since 2005 to plot the data.
They say their map can help people to understand the escalating instability and chaos that can occur when pressures caused by limited resources are compounded by factors such as climate change and rising populations.
The Chaos Map can help to predict and inform early responses to resource insecurity and social unrest by examining trends around past events, its authors say.
The number of fatalities was also unearthed, and detailed on an interactive map where readers can compare how each country fared across the 12-year time frame
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A mass protest sweeps through Caracas, Venezuela to pres the military to allow UN aid to help the economically crippled country, which suffers shortages of food, medicine and other basics.
They say this could prove useful for governments and non-governmental organisations (NGOs).
Prof Jones, director of the Global Sustainability Institute at Anglia Ruskin University, said: 'As climate change increases the severity of extreme weather over the coming years and we see continuing political instability in key oil-producing regions, there is likely to be an increased frequency and severity of physical shocks to our food, fuel and water supplies.
'Without proper strategies to combat these shocks, it is likely that reactive policies from governments will only make the impacts of these shocks worse, leading to bigger chaos events and more deaths.
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People look for food in the garbage due the extreme food shortages at Sabana Grande in Caracas, Venezuela
'In Europe, while we have already seen a limited number of deaths, without a full and transparent conversation between governments and its citizens around the need to move away from fossil fuels and more investment into resilient food and water systems, it is likely that we will not be immune to these events.
'It is difficult to pinpoint exactly what causes protests about rising fuel or food costs to turn violent, and this is where the risks lie.
'We hope the Chaos Map can build our understanding of these tipping points in society so we can hopefully avoid the worst impacts in the future.'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...es-food-water-fuel.html#v-4596929508570085170
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...es-food-water-fuel.html#v-2042404708291791145
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ages-food-water-fuel.html#v-33289675585535202
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...-caused-unrest-shortages-food-water-fuel.html
Chaos Map shows where deaths caused by unrest over shortages of food, water or fuel has happened across the world since 2005 as authors say future will only be more violent
- The research team from Anglia Ruskin University plotted more than 1,300 deaths
- Conflict, uprisings, looting, riots and suicides were tracked across the globe
- Venezuela was the hardest hit by violent unrest in 2017 and suffered 92 deaths
By Jack Elsom For Mailonline
Deaths from violent unrest are set to spike in the coming years, according to researchers who have produced a 'Chaos Map' which lays bare the fallout of devastating famines and droughts.
The team from Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, plotted more than 1,300 deaths between 2005 and 2017 which were caused unrest sparked by natural resource shortages.
Conflict, uprisings, looting, riots and suicides were tracked across the globe and investigated to ascertain if they had been triggered by food, water or fuel insecurity.
The number of fatalities was also unearthed, and detailed on an interactive map where readers can compare how each country fared across the 12-year time frame.
Venezuela was the hardest hit by violent unrest in 2017, where 92 deaths were caused by its resource crisis.
Not a single country in the Western world suffered fatalaties from shortage-related violence.
Dr Davide Natalini and Professor Aled Jones, of Anglia Ruskin University, scanned reports covering food, water, and fuel insecurity shocks published since 2005 to plot the data.
They say their map can help people to understand the escalating instability and chaos that can occur when pressures caused by limited resources are compounded by factors such as climate change and rising populations.
The Chaos Map can help to predict and inform early responses to resource insecurity and social unrest by examining trends around past events, its authors say.
The number of fatalities was also unearthed, and detailed on an interactive map where readers can compare how each country fared across the 12-year time frame
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A mass protest sweeps through Caracas, Venezuela to pres the military to allow UN aid to help the economically crippled country, which suffers shortages of food, medicine and other basics.
They say this could prove useful for governments and non-governmental organisations (NGOs).
Prof Jones, director of the Global Sustainability Institute at Anglia Ruskin University, said: 'As climate change increases the severity of extreme weather over the coming years and we see continuing political instability in key oil-producing regions, there is likely to be an increased frequency and severity of physical shocks to our food, fuel and water supplies.
'Without proper strategies to combat these shocks, it is likely that reactive policies from governments will only make the impacts of these shocks worse, leading to bigger chaos events and more deaths.
+2
People look for food in the garbage due the extreme food shortages at Sabana Grande in Caracas, Venezuela
'In Europe, while we have already seen a limited number of deaths, without a full and transparent conversation between governments and its citizens around the need to move away from fossil fuels and more investment into resilient food and water systems, it is likely that we will not be immune to these events.
'It is difficult to pinpoint exactly what causes protests about rising fuel or food costs to turn violent, and this is where the risks lie.
'We hope the Chaos Map can build our understanding of these tipping points in society so we can hopefully avoid the worst impacts in the future.'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...es-food-water-fuel.html#v-4596929508570085170
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...es-food-water-fuel.html#v-2042404708291791145
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ages-food-water-fuel.html#v-33289675585535202
