Climate Change and Conflict
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6233067 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vally Koubi (0000-0002-4842-051X, Center for Comparative and International Studies, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich 8092, Switzerland, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 343-360 |
| Publication date | 2019-05-11 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annual Review of Political Science (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1094-2939 • E-ISSN: 1545-1577 |
| Publisher | Annual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1146/annurev-polisci-050317-070830 |
| OpenAlex | W2922349180 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 186 |
| References cited | 101 |
The link between climate change and conflict has been discussed intensively in academic literature during the past decade. This review aims to provide a clearer picture of what the research community currently has to say with regard to this nexus. It finds that the literature has not detected a robust and general effect linking climate to conflict onset. Substantial agreement exists that climatic changes contribute to conflict under some conditions and through certain pathways. In particular, the literature shows that climatic conditions breed conflict in fertile grounds: in regions dependent on agriculture and in combination and interaction with other socioeconomic and political factors such as a low level of economic development and political marginalization. Future research should continue to investigate how climatic changes interact with and/or are conditioned by socioeconomic, political, and demographic settings to cause conflict and uncover the causal mechanisms that link these two phenomena
Agriculture · Biology · Climate change · Development economics · Economics · Geography · Nexus (standard · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Population · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Climate change impacts on agriculture · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Demography · Law · Transboundary Water Resource Management · Ecology
The archaeology of climatic and sociocultural change
The hidden universe of operationalizing natural experiments
From fAIrplay to climate wars
Environmental Ethics of War
Rebel Governance in the Age of Climate Change
Covid-19, Climate Change, and Conflict in Honduras
Vicious Circles
The 2022 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change
A Fuller City
Climate Shocks, Political Conflict, and the Resilience of Democracies
Soil health in a conflict-affected area
Possible Role of the Regional NDVI in the Expansion of the Chiefdom of Lijiang during the Ming Dynasty as Reflected by Historical Documents and Tree Rings
Climate Change and Homicide
Mudanças climáticas, conflitualidades e sistemas de crises no Sahel (África ocidental)
Varying climatic-social-geographical patterns shape the conflict risk at regional and global scales
Net benefit of smaller human populations to environmental integrity and individual health and wellbeing
Disaster risk reduction and the limits of truisms
Contention, cooperation, and context
The climate missing
Attitudes of urban residents towards environmental migration in Kenya and Vietnam
Drought experience and altruism
Critical intervention points for European adaptation to cascading climate change impacts
Institutional barriers to climate change and health adaptation in Burkina Faso
Are forest carbon projects in Africa green but mean
Unraveling the spatial patterns of water conflicts in Africa through a multi-scale lens
Pastoral conflicts and (dis)trust
The direct and indirect economic consequences of climate damage in poor countries
Urban sprawl and the changing socioecological systems in peri-urban Ghana
Geopolitics of climate change-induced conflict and population displacement in West Africa
Broadening the Climate–Conflict Nexus Through Social Sustainability
International technology transfer to Africa in light of the SDGs
Global climate, El Niño, and militarized fisheries disputes in the East and South China Seas
From Green to Red
Does wood bioenergy help or harm the climate
Semiotic landscape in a green capital
Modes of summertime thermal urban stress over major cities in the Middle East
Riding the Climate Surge
Vulnerability to Climate Change and Communal Conflicts
Crossing Borders
Climate change, environmental degradation and armed conflict
Governance characteristics and feelings of safety are associated with attitudinal success in community‐based natural resource management & conservation organizations in northern Kenya
The 1964 Jordan River Diversion Plan
Climate change as an arena of wartime political struggles
Governing climate migration
Conflict, Climate, and Child Health
Climate change, natural resources, and conflict
Community-Based Land Governance Solutions to Climate-Driven Land Resources–Based Conflict
Climate, livelihood insecurity, and violent conflict over fishing access in coastal Bangladesh
Revitalizing indigenous practices employed by farmers to reduce agriculture’s vulnerability to climate change
The sustainability–peace nexus
Climate mitigation policies and the potential pathways to conflict
Reframing Climate-Induced Socio-Environmental Conflicts
A double-edged sword into a plowshare
Health and migration in the context of a changing climate
Drought impacts on armed conflict primarily explained by pre-existing conflict risk
Climate has contrasting direct and indirect effects on armed conflicts
Projecting armed conflict risk in Africa towards 2050 along the SSP-RCP scenarios
Transboundary Water Cooperation in the Post-Cold War Era
Fiddling at the conference of the parties? Peeping into the highs and lows of the post-Kyoto climate change conferences
Climate change and political stability in African states
Quantifying the influence of climate variability on armed conflict in Africa, 2000–2015
Dynamic influences of climate change on prehistoric lifeways in the Americas
Improving the evidence base
Exploring migration decision-making and agricultural adaptation in the context of climate change
Human security under climate stress
In search of consensus
A global analysis of interactions between peace and environmental sustainability
Arid fields where conflict grows
International conflict and cooperation over freshwater resources
The risks of ecological security
Does Unprecedented Mass Immigration Fuel Ethnic Discrimination? A Two-Wave Field Experiment in the German Housing Market
Gender in the Climate-Conflict Nexus
Relocation, Climate Change and Finding a Place of Belonging for Rohingya Refugees
Yemen's Survival Quandary
Connecting Disasters and Climate Change to the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus
The Russian invasion of Ukraine
The Driving Federal Interest in Environmental Hazards
When It Rains, It Pours
On (In-)Secure Grounds
Internal Migration and Resource Conflict
Exploring temporal and topical dynamics of research on climate/environment–migration nexus
Climate change and armed conflicts in Africa
Relational values and citizens’ assemblies in the context of adaptation to sea-level rise
Security risks from climate change and environmental degradation
The paradox of climate resilience and elusive peace in the Lake Chad Basin
Towards climate resilient peace
Three decades of research on climate change and peace
A co-designed heuristic guide for investigating the peace-sustainability nexus in the context of global change
Adaptation and Peace
How climate volatility influences human rights
Through the lens of inequality
Community perception of climate events as a security issue
Small and mid-sized cities at the centre of climate adaptation in the global South
Climate change, mobility and violent conflict
Positive Peace Pillars and Sustainability Dimensions
Tracking Climate Securitization
Understanding climate change adaptation in Ghana
A systematic literature review on the interconnection between climate change impacts and conflicts
Women, Peace and Security in a changing climate
Reflexive Peacebuilding
Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change
Climate Change 2007
The causality analysis of climate change and large-scale human crisis
Temperature Shocks and Economic Growth
Civil conflicts are associated with the global climate
A Theory of Political Transitions
Climate variability and conflict risk in East Africa, 1990–2009
Rising Food Prices, Food Price Volatility, and Social Unrest
Workers, Warriors, and Criminals
One effect to rule them all? A comment on climate and conflict
Climate change, migration and violent conflict
Human Aggression
Environment, Scarcity, and Violence
The Skeptical Environmentalist
Commodity Price Shocks and Civil Conflict
Inequality, Grievances, and Civil War
Climate and Conflict
Economic Determinants of Land Invasions
Conflict, Climate, and Cells
Environmental changes and violent conflict
Climate variability, food production shocks, and violent conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa
Forecasting civil conflict along the shared socioeconomic pathways
Research methods for exploring the links between climate change and conflict
Climate–conflict research
Economic Shocks and Civil War
Local warming and violent conflict in North and South Sudan
Rain and Raids Revisited
The devil is in the details
Demand, supply, and restraint
Climate shocks and political violence
Assessment of transboundary river basins for potential hydro-political tensions
Flood-Induced Displacement and Civil Conflict
Rainfall and conflict
The role of environmental perceptions in migration decision-making
Climate Wars? Assessing the Claim That Drought Breeds Conflict
Economic Shocks and Civil Conflict
Weather Shocks, Sweet Potatoes and Peasant Revolts in Historical China
Jewish Persecutions and Weather Shocks
Drought and Civil War in Sub‐Saharan Africa
Climate change, conflict, and cooperation
Climate variability, economic growth, and civil conflict
Come rain or shine
Food scarcity and state vulnerability
Climate clashes? Weather variability, land pressure, and organized violence in Kenya, 1989–2004
The Effects of Weather-Induced Migration on Sons of the Soil Riots in India
Droughts, Land Appropriation, and Rebel Violence in the Developing World
Renewable Natural Resource Shocks and Conflict Intensity
Climate Change and Civil Unrest
Responding to Catastrophe
Political Succession
Drought, Local Institutional Contexts, and Support for Violence in Kenya
The Determinants of Environmental Migrants' Conflict Perception
The Majority‐Minority Divide in Attitudes toward Internal Migration
Conflicts over shared rivers
Climate change-induced migration and violent conflict
Environmental security
Climate change, human security and violent conflict
What Do We Learn from the Weather? The New Climate-Economy Literature
On exposure, vulnerability and violence
Long-term environmental change and geographical patterns of violence in Darfur, 2003-2005
Sustained drought, vulnerability and civil conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa
Shared rivers and conflict - A reconsideration
Hell and high water
Climate triggers
Trends and triggers redux
Rice or riots
Do natural resources matter for interstate and intrastate armed conflict
Subnational violent conflict forecasts for sub-Saharan Africa, 2015-65, using climate-sensitive models
Local conditions of drought-related violence in sub-Saharan Africa
Climate-related natural disasters, economic growth, and armed civil conflict
Feeding unrest
Temperature seasonality and violent conflict
Climate change, rice crops, and violence
Whither the weather? Climate change and conflict
Weathering unrest
| Unique citing works | 186 |
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| Citations per year | 9,79 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2026 (20) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 183 |