Armed conflict distribution in global drylands through the lens of a typology of socio-ecological vulnerability

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1419-1435

  Sterzel, Till ^a   Lüdeke, Matthias ^a   Kok, Marcel ^b   Walther, Carsten ^a   Sietz, Diana ^d   de Soysa, Indra ^c   Lucas, Paul ^b   Janssen, Peter ^b  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b PBL NETHERLANDS ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^d WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Environment; Nonlinear; Resource scarcity; Socio ecological system; Subnational resolution

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904634661     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-013-0553-0     Document Type: Article

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