Foliage and fighting: Forest resources and the onset, duration, and location of civil war

Political Geography

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 761-782

  Rustad, Siri Camilla Aas ^a,b   Rød, Jan Ketil ^a,b   Larsen, Wenche ^b   Gleditsch, Nils Petter ^a,b  

^a PEACE RESEARCH INSTITUTE OSLO PRIO   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Armed conflict; Civil war; Forest; Natural resources; Resource curse

Indexed keywords

ARMED FORCES; CIVIL WAR; FOREST COVER; FOREST RESOURCE; GEOPOLITICS;

ASIA; CAMBODIA; EURASIA; MYANMAR; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 55649100957     PISSN: 09626298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2008.09.004     Document Type: Article

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