Climate Change, Conflict and Development in Sudan: Global Neo-Malthusian Narratives and Local Power Struggles

Development and Change

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 679-707

  Verhoeven, Harry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIVIL WAR; CLIMATE CHANGE; CRISIS MANAGEMENT; POLITICAL POWER; SOCIAL CONFLICT; SOCIAL MOVEMENT; VIOLENCE;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CATERING SERVICE; CIVIL DISORDER; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECONOMICS; ETHNOLOGY; FOOD SAFETY; HISTORY; LEGAL ASPECT; MIGRATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SUDAN;

CIVIL DISORDERS; CLIMATE CHANGE; FOOD SAFETY; FOOD SUPPLY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); RESIDENTIAL MOBILITY; SUDAN;

SUDAN;

EID: 79960238284     PISSN: 0012155X     EISSN: 14677660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7660.2011.01707.x     Document Type: Article

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