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 …

Executive summary The 2015 Lancet Commission on Health and Climate Change has been
formed to map out the impacts of climate change, and the necessary policy responses, in …

The study of security implications of climate change has developed rapidly from a nascent
area of academic inquiry into an important and thriving research field that traverses …

Despite the lack of robust empirical evidence, a growing number of media reports attempt to
link climate change to the ongoing violent conflicts in Syria and other parts of the world, as …

The repercussions of climate change will be felt in various ways throughout both natural and
human systems in Sub-Saharan Africa. Climate change projections for this region point to a …

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 …

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 …

Human security will be progressively threatened as the climate changes (robust evidence,
high agreement). Human insecurity almost never has single causes, but instead emerges …

Since 2001, hundreds of academic studies have examined the “political resource curse,”
meaning the claim that natural resource wealth tends to adversely affect a country's …

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