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Hunger, famine and the space of vulnerability

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Some of the ideas in this paper are elaborated in much more detail, including case studies, in a paper by the authors entitled “The Space of Vulnerability: The Causal Structure of Hunger and Famine”, published inProgress in Human Geography, 13, 1, 43–67 (1993).

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Watts, M.J., Bohle, H.G. Hunger, famine and the space of vulnerability. GeoJournal 30, 117–125 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00808128

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