Why do conflicts over scarce renewable resources turn violent? A qualitative comparative analysis

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 33, Issue , 2015, Pages 61-70

  Ide, Tobias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conflict; Environment; QCA; Resource scarcity; Violence

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; GLOBAL CHANGE; PERIPHERAL REGION; POLITICAL CHANGE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; THEORETICAL STUDY; VIOLENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFLICT MANAGEMENT; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY;

EID: 84929493694     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.04.008     Document Type: Article

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