We review the emerging literature on climate and conflict. We consider multiple types of
human conflict, including both interpersonal conflict, such as assault and murder, and …

Climate change is causing increases in temperature, changes in precipitation and extreme
weather events, sea-level rise, and other environmental impacts. It is also causing or …

Introduction Despite the existence of institutions designed to promote peace, interactions
between individuals and groups sometimes lead to conflict. Understanding the causes of …

Are violent conflict and socio-political stability associated with changes in climatological
variables? We examine 50 rigorous quantitative studies on this question and find consistent …

A recent Climatic Change review article reports a remarkable convergence of scientific
evidence for a link between climatic events and violent intergroup conflict, thus departing …

The case study literature is ripe with examples of a positive association between inequality
and civil war, but systematic country-level studies have largely failed to find a significant …

The conventional discourse relating climate change to conflict focuses on long term trends in
temperature and precipitation that define ecosystems and their subsequent impact on …

Since the publication of the fourth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change in 2007, the securitization of global warming has reached a new level …

We explore the relationship between drought and civil war. We show that the link between
rainfall, temperature and civil war found in the literature may be driven by aggregate shocks …

IMPLICATIONS OF CLIMATE CHANGE FOR ARMED CONFLICT• 77 water in the dry
season for large sections of the develo** world. More extreme precipitation also could …