The devil is in the details: An investigation of the relationships between conflict, food price and climate across Africa

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 32, Issue , 2015, Pages 187-199

  Raleigh, Clionadh ^a   Choi, Hyun Jin ^b   Kniveton, Dominic ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Africa; Climate change; Conflict; Food price; Rainfall; Simultaneous equations model

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; DATA SET; ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS; FOOD MARKET; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRICE DYNAMICS; SOCIAL CONFLICT;

AFRICA;

EID: 84929146948     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.03.005     Document Type: Article

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