Climate–conflict research
Some reflections on the way forward
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12929255 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Halvard Buhaug (0000-0002-6432-5985, Peace Research Institute Oslo, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 269-275 |
| Publication date | 2015-02-18 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1757-7780 • E-ISSN: 1757-7799 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/wcc.336 |
| OpenAlex | W1523570638 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 69 |
| References cited | 46 |
A decade of systematic research on climate change and armed conflict has revealed a number of interesting patterns but few results that are robust across studies. This essay takes stock of the quantitative empirical literature, identifies central limitations, and presents five priorities for future research in the field. While these priorities refer to technical and operational aspects of statistical analysis, their underlying motivation, and objective, is to develop a better and more refined theoretical understanding of possible indirect and conditional connections between climatic changes and violent conflict. WIREs Clim Change 2015, 6:269–275. doi: 10.1002/wcc.336 This article is categorized under: Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change > Values‐Based Approach to Vulnerability and Adaptation
Adaptation (eye · Climate change · Computer security · Economics · Environmental resource management · Geography · Political science · Positive economics · Regional science · Stock (firearms · Vulnerability (computing · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Computer Science · Environmental and Biological Research in Conflict Zones · Psychology · Transboundary Water Resource Management · Ecology
Connecting climate variability and conflict
Droughts, state-citizen relations and support for political violence in Sub-Saharan Africa
Hell and high water
The Impact of Climate-Related Security Risks on Community Values
Environmental (In)Security
Climate Change, Security Risks, and Violent Conflicts
Conflict Projections in U.S. Central Command
Global urban population exposure to extreme heat
Climate Change and Global Food Systems
Exploring the Climate Change, Migration and Conflict Nexus
Vicious Circles
Climate change and peacebuilding
Climate Change and Violent Conflict in East Africa
Does climate change influence state fragility? Evidence for the countries of sub-Saharan Africa
Climate-related security risks in the Sahel
How long and how strong must a climatic anomaly be in order to evoke a social transformation? Historical and contemporaneous case studies
Climate Change and Extreme Events
Towards a Critical Peri-urban Turn in Climate-related Mobility in Southern Africa
Drought impacts and community adaptation
The contribution of armed conflict to vulnerability to disaster
A mediation analysis of the linkages between climate variability, water insecurity, and interpersonal violence
Geopolitics of climate change-induced conflict and population displacement in West Africa
Divided Environments
African Perspectives on Religion and Climate Change
Catastrophes, Confrontations, and Constraints
Upending Climate Violence Research
Environmental Change and Farmer-Herder Conflict in Agro-Pastoral West Africa
Migrant Remittances and Conflicts in Sub-Saharan African Countries
Community perception of climate events as a security issue
Knowledge production at the environment-security nexus
Women, Peace and Security in a changing climate
Climate mitigation policies and the potential pathways to conflict
Defence and climate change
Measuring the effect of climate change on wars in history
Environmental stress and agricultural landownership in Africa
A main driver or an intermediate variable? Climate change, water and security in the Middle East
Multi-method evidence for when and how climate-related disasters contribute to armed conflict risk
Ubuntu
Environmental pressures and pro-government militias
The EU and climate-related security risks
All about water and land? Resource-related conflicts in East and West Africa revisited
Global environmental change I
Conflict in abundance and peacebuilding in scarcity
Local warming and violent armed conflict in Africa
Fragile Geographies and the Climate-Conflict Nexus
Foregrounding politics
Climate has contrasting direct and indirect effects on armed conflicts
Limits to the Anthropocene
Toxic diplomacy through environmental management
Climate change and armed conflicts in Africa
Will the Nile River Turn into a Lake? The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance (Gerd) Dam Case-Study
Contributions and perspectives from geography to the study of climate
Research methods for exploring the links between climate change and conflict
The climate of war
Intergovernmental organizations and climate security
Beyond the finite pool of worry
Do treaties matter? Climate change, water variability, and cooperation along transboundary river basins
Climate variability, crop and conflict
Drought, Local Institutional Contexts, and Support for Violence in Kenya
The Determinants of Environmental Migrants' Conflict Perception
Climate Change and Conflict
Understanding the Disaster-Migration-Violent Conflict Nexus in a Warming World
Big data applications for climate-conflict research
Local conditions of drought-related violence in sub-Saharan Africa
Science-policy dimensions of research on climate change and conflict
Weakened by the storm
The hunger games
Security implications of climate change
On climate and conflict
From mobilization to revolution
States, Scarcity, and Civil Strife in the Developing World
Is climate change a driver of armed conflict?
Trading-off fish biodiversity, food security, and hydropower in the Mekong River Basin
Climate variability and conflict risk in East Africa, 1990–2009
One effect to rule them all? A comment on climate and conflict
Breaking the Conflict Trap: Civil War and Development Policy
Environment, Scarcity, and Violence
National security and the accelerating risk of climate change
Environmental changes and violent conflict
Darfur
Disentangling the Climate-conflict Nexus
Conflict or Cooperation? The Social and Political Impacts of Resource Scarcity on Small Island States
Scarcity and Cooperation Along International Rivers
The Evolution of Environment-Conflict Research
Of Rain and Raids
Sources of human insecurity in the face of hydro-climatic change
Demand, supply, and restraint
Population, environment and security
Development Consequences of Armed Conflict
Climate Wars? Assessing the Claim That Drought Breeds Conflict
Climate variability, economic growth, and civil conflict
Come rain or shine
Sensitivity Analysis of Empirical Results on Civil War Onset
On exposure, vulnerability and violence
Climate triggers
Climate security vulnerability in Africa mapping 3.0
Climate change and conflict
Rice or riots
Could climate change precipitate peace
The law of the land
Armed Conflict and The Environment
Positivist Climate Conflict Research
Whither the weather? Climate change and conflict
Introducing Acled
| Unique citing works | 69 |
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| Citations per year | 1,23 |
| Citation span | 1970 - 2026 (57) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 65 |