One effect to rule them all? A comment on climate and conflict

Climatic Change

Volumn 127, Issue 3-4, 2014, Pages 391-397

  Buhaug, H ^a,b   Nordkvelle, J ^a   Bernauer, T ^c   Bohmelt T ^c,d   Brzoska, M ^e   Busby, J W ^f   Ciccone, A ^g   Fjelde, H ^h   Gartzke, E ^d,i   Gleditsch, N P ^a,b   Goldstone, J A ^j,k   Hegre, H ^a,h   Holtermann, H ^l   Koubi, V ^c,m   Link, J S A ^e   Link, P M ^e   Lujala, P ^b   O'Loughlin J ⁿ   Raleigh, C ^o   Scheffran, J ^e   Schilling, J ^e,p   Smith, T G ^f   Theisen, O M ^b   Tol, R S J ^o,q   Urdal, H ^a   von Uexkull, N ^h   more..

^a PEACE RESEARCH INSTITUTE OSLO PRIO   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c ETH and University of Zurich   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

^h UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^j GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k RUSSIAN PRESIDENTIAL ACADEMY OF NATIONAL ECONOMY AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION   (Russian Federation)

^l UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^m UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^o UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^p International Alert   (United Kingdom)

^q VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATIC CHANGES; CLIMATIC EVENTS; EMPIRICAL LITERATURE; META ANALYSIS; SAMPLE SELECTION; SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE; SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHES;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CLIMATE CHANGE; LITERATURE REVIEW; META-ANALYSIS; RESEARCH WORK;

EID: 84911971712     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-014-1266-1     Document Type: Article

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