Climate and conflict

M Burke, SM Hsiang, E Miguel - Annu. Rev. Econ., 2015‏ - annualreviews.org
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 …

Cultural dimensions of climate change impacts and adaptation

WN Adger, J Barnett, K Brown, N Marshall… - Nature climate …, 2013‏ - nature.com
Society's response to every dimension of global climate change is mediated by culture. We
analyse new research across the social sciences to show that climate change threatens …

Southeast Asian ecological dependency on Tibetan Plateau streamflow over the last millennium

F Chen, W Man, S Wang, J Esper, D Meko… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
The great river systems originating from the Tibetan Plateau are pivotal for the wellbeing of
more than half the global population. Our understanding of historical ranges and future …

[HTML][HTML] Anthropogenic land use estimates for the Holocene–HYDE 3.2

K Klein Goldewijk, A Beusen… - Earth System …, 2017‏ - essd.copernicus.org
This paper presents an update and extension of HYDE, the History Database of the Global
Environment (HYDE version 3.2). HYDE is an internally consistent combination of historical …

Cooling and societal change during the Late Antique Little Ice Age from 536 to around 660 AD

U Büntgen, VS Myglan, FC Ljungqvist… - Nature …, 2016‏ - nature.com
Climatic changes during the first half of the Common Era have been suggested to play a role
in societal reorganizations in Europe, and Asia,. In particular, the sixth century coincides with …

The Neotoma Paleoecology Database, a multiproxy, international, community-curated data resource

JW Williams, EC Grimm, JL Blois, DF Charles… - Quaternary …, 2018‏ - cambridge.org
The Neotoma Paleoecology Database is a community-curated data resource that supports
interdisciplinary global change research by enabling broad-scale studies of taxon and …

Armed-conflict risks enhanced by climate-related disasters in ethnically fractionalized countries

CF Schleussner, JF Donges, RV Donner… - Proceedings of the …, 2016‏ - pnas.org
Social and political tensions keep on fueling armed conflicts around the world. Although
each conflict is the result of an individual context-specific mixture of interconnected factors …

[PDF][PDF] Re-framing the threat of global warming: an empirical causal loop diagram of climate change, food insecurity and societal collapse

CE Richards, RC Lupton, JM Allwood - Climatic Change, 2021‏ - library.oapen.org
This chapter uses a systems dynamics approach and proposes that a Causal Loop Diagram
can be utilised in order to construct an evidence base of the relationships between climate …

[PDF][PDF] Human security

WN Adger, JM Pulhin, J Barnett, GD Dabelko… - 2014‏ - ore.exeter.ac.uk
Human security will be progressively threatened as the climate changes (robust evidence,
high agreement). Human insecurity almost never has single causes, but instead emerges …

Long-term decrease in Asian monsoon rainfall and abrupt climate change events over the past 6,700 years

B Yang, C Qin, A Bräuning, TJ Osborn, V Trouet… - Proceedings of the …, 2021‏ - pnas.org
Asian summer monsoon (ASM) variability and its long-term ecological and societal impacts
extending back to Neolithic times are poorly understood due to a lack of high-resolution …