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Climate Change and the Impact of Drought on Human Affairs and Human History in the Philippines, 1582 to 2009
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Climate Change and the Impact of Drought on Human Affairs and Human History in the Philippines, 1582 to 2009

J.F. Warren
Working Paper (Asia Research Centre) No. 174, Murdoch University
2013
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This paper draws attention to the causes and consequences of food shortages and famine with respect to the relationship between climatic factors, namely El Niño events, drought, food supply, regional characteristics and social structure.* Hence, in examining famines in the past and present, I will stress the structural links between food shortages, Filipino peasant societies and the weather factor. In addition, I will explore the historical relationship associated with economic and political changes and societal group inequality that becomes ever more explicit in famine…

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