On climate variability and civil war in Asia

Climatic Change

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 709-721

  Wischnath, Gerdis ^a,b   Buhaug, Halvard ^a  

^a PEACE RESEARCH INSTITUTE OSLO PRIO   (Norway)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; RAIN;

ARMED CONFLICT; CLIMATE EFFECTS; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; EMPIRICAL EVALUATIONS; INTERANNUAL CLIMATE VARIABILITY; RESEARCH DESIGNS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL DOMAINS; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84957727897     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-013-1004-0     Document Type: Article

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