Archive
Taxonomy Archive: conflict
20 Apr 2018 |
 |
 |
Weather and Violence
Researchers are quantifying the causal relationship between extreme climate and human conflict.
20 Apr 2018 |
|
|
Briefing: after the Paris climate talks— what next for migration and displacement linked to climate change?
Climate change has the power to re-shape patterns of migration and displacement across the world. For this reason migration and displacement have been part of the international climate change negotiations for a number of years.
20 Apr 2018 |
|
|
Ditch Coal: The Global Mining Impacts of the UKs Addiction to Coal
Coal is at a crossroads in the UK. On the one hand, the UK’s dirtiest power stations burn vast quantities of coal, with little or no regard for the human and environmental impacts that this has. On the other, the UK Government has announced an intention to “consult” over proposals to close remaining coal fired […]
20 Apr 2018 |
|
|
High and Dry: Climate Change, Water, and the Economy
The impacts of climate change will be channeled primarily through the water cycle, with consequences that could be large and uneven across the globe. Water-related climate risks cascade through food, energy, urban, and environmental systems. Growing populations, rising incomes, and expanding cities will converge upon a world where ...
20 Apr 2018 |
|
|
Quantifying the Influence of Climate on Human Conflict: full academic talk at USGS
Full academic talk at USGS about quantifying the influence of climate on human conflict
20 Apr 2018 |
|
|
Climate Change and Gender Justice
Melting ice-caps, freak storms, the search for ‘green’ forms of transport and the international carbon trading system; superfi cially, both the impact of human-induced climate change and the policies adopted in response to it may seem gender-neutral. In reality though, there are complex and dynamic links between gender relations ...
20 Apr 2018 |
|
|
Climate, conflict, and African development: Edward Miguel at TEDxBerkeley
Edward Miguel at TEDxBerkeley 2014: “Rethink. Redefine. Recreate.” His talk is titled “Climate, Conflict, and African Development.” Edward Miguel is the
20 Apr 2018 |
|
|
Panel 2B: Solomon Hsiang, UC Berkeley
Presentation Title: Climate and Human Conflict.Presenting within the panel on “Water, Climate, Food, and Population: Food, Population, and Security.” Moderated by: Greg Dalton, Climate One Radio.UC Berkeley’s 2013 Philomathia Symposium on Water, Climate, and Society: Challenges and Strategies in a Rapidly Changing World
20 Apr 2018 |
|
|
Civil conflicts are associated with the global climate
It has been proposed that changes in global climate have been responsible for episodes of widespread violence and even the collapse of civilizations. Yet previous studies have not shown that violence can be attributed to the global climate, only that random weather events might be correlated with conflict in some cases. Here we ...
20 Apr 2018 |
|
|
Climate change, conflict, and health
Future climate change is predicted to diminish essential natural resource availability in many regions and perhaps globally. The resulting scarcity of water, food and livelihoods could lead to increasingly desperate populations that challenge governments, enhancing the risk of intra- and interstate conflict. Defence establishments ...