Climate Change, Weather Shocks and Violent Conflict: A Critical Look at the Evidence

We use cross-country data to explore whether temperature and rainfall shocks trigger violent conflict, or not. We include a wide range of country and time samples, and explore whether the impact of weather shocks is conditional on income or political regimes. Our overall conclusion is sobering. Notwithstanding the attention this topic has attracted from the media and policy makers, we find little robust evidence linking weather shocks to the onset of conflict.

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Year of publication:	2012
Authors:	Klomp, Jeroen ; Bulte, Erwin H.
Institutions:	International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE
Subject:	climate change \| temperature \| rainfall \| violence \| Africa \| resource scarcity. \| Environmental Economics and Policy \| Food Security and Poverty \| Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	2012 Conference, August 18-24, 2012, Foz do Iguacu, Brazil.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	The text is part of a series 2012 Conference, August 18-24, 2012, Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil Number 125861
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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