Climate shocks and political violence

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 239-250

  Salehyan, Idean ^a   Hendrix, Cullen S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Conflict; Drought; Environmental security; Political violence

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; POLITICAL VIOLENCE; SOCIAL SECURITY; WATER RESOURCE; AGRICULTURAL POLICY; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; OPERATIONS TECHNOLOGY; POLICY APPROACH; POLITICAL CONFLICT; REGIONAL SECURITY;

EID: 84912083250     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2014.07.007     Document Type: Article

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