Beyond scarcity: Rethinking water, climate change and conflict in the Sudans

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 29, Issue , 2014, Pages 360-370

  Selby, Jan ^a   Hoffmann, Clemens ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Climate change; Conflict; Scarcity; Sudan; Water

Indexed keywords

EID: 84911999388     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2014.01.008     Document Type: Article

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