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Apr 2018

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Climate, conflict, and social stability: what does the evidence say?

Are violent conflict and socio-polit ical stability associated with changes in climatological variables? We examine 50 rigorous quantitative studies on this question and find consistent support for a causal association between climatological changes and various conflict outcomes, at spatial scales ranging from individual buildings to ...

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Apr 2018

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Collective violence caused by climate change and how it threatens health and human rights

The weight of scientific evidence indicates that climate change is causally associated with collective violence. This evidence arises from individual studies over wide ranges of time and geographic location, and from two extensive meta-analyses. Complex pathways that underlie this association are not fully understood; however, ...

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Apr 2018

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Global climate change, war, and population decline in recent human history

Although scientists have warned of possible social perils resulting from climate change, the impacts of long-term climate change on social unrest and population collapse have not been quantitatively investigated. In this study, high-resolution paleo-climatic data have been used to explore at a macroscale the effects of climate change ...

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Apr 2018

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Quantifying the Influence of Climate on Human Conflict

Slide deck from the World Bank quantifying the influence of climate on human conflict.

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Apr 2018

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Climate Change and Health: Conflict

Slides from a webinar presented by PSR Board Member Dr. Cindy Parker on the connection between climate change, resources, and war.

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Apr 2018

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Climate change ‘makes violence likelier’

Scientists say there is a direct link between changing climate and an increase in violence, reinforcing a key finding of the latest IPCC report. Summary of report findings.

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Apr 2018

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Hunting for the neuroscience of heat and violence

According to recent research it is estimated that a single standard-deviation increase in temperature elevates that risk of person-to-person violance by about 2.5 percent and the risk of group-to-group violence by about 11 percent. Given the increase in frequency and severity of extreme heat events as climate change worsens, it is ...

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