Climate change and violent conflict in Europe over the last millennium

Climatic Change

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 65-79

  Tol, Richard S J ^a,b,c   Wagner, Sebastian ^d  

^a ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Ireland)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE RECONSTRUCTION; TEMPERATURE CLIMATE;

GLOBAL WARMING;

CONFLICT MANAGEMENT; CORRELATION; GLOBAL WARMING; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RECONSTRUCTION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; VIOLENCE;

EUROPE;

EID: 77149125232     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-009-9659-2     Document Type: Article

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