Civil conflicts are associated with the global climate

By Solomon Hsiang, Kyle C. Meng, M. Cane. Nature, 2011

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Soil Science

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A Third Wave in the Economics of Climate Change (2015, background): “…1974; Hoel andKarp 2001), consequences of catastrophic outcomes on cost-benefit analysis of climate change (Weitzman 2011; Martin and Pindyck 2014), the effect of climate change on conflict (Hsiang et al. 2011; Cane et al. 2014) and on agriculture (Schlenker et al. 2005; Lobell et al. 2014).”
Using Weather Data and Climate Model Output in Economic Analyses of Climate Change (2013, neutral): “7However, in many areas of the world, the independence of year-to-year variation is questionable because of planetary-scale climate oscillations, such as the El Niño-Southern Oscillation, which may be autoregressive (Hsiang et al. 2011). regression design will be free of this bias.”
Environmental changes and violent conflict (2012, background): “Hsiang et al (2011) study the impact of planetary-scale climatic changes on civil conflict and show that the ‘probability of new civil conflicts arising throughout the tropics doubles during El Niño years relative to La Niña years.’”
Tipping elements and climate–economic shocks: Pathways toward integrated assessment (2016, background): “Although less directly influenced by climate than cyclones, civil wars both cause large economic shocks and also have an environmental connection [Hsiang et al., 2011, 2013].”
External Shocks, Internal Shots: The Geography of Civil Conflicts (2012, methodology): “12); and (i) allowing for cross-sectional spatial correlation and cell-specific serial correlation (Hsiang et al., 2011), or alternatively for different levels of clustering of the standard errors (section A.”
Adaptation to climate change in Sub-Saharan agriculture: assessing the evidence and rethinking the drivers (2014, background): “According to Hurni’s studies (1998), Ethiopia is divided into five major agro-ecological zones that are dissimilar in altitude, soil and consequently in food production.”
Destruction, Disinvestment, and Death: Economic and Human Losses Following Environmental Disaster (2013, background): “These fixed effects also account for any unobservable common climatic shocks, such as the El-Niño-Southern Oscillation, which could be correlated with typhoon exposure (Camargo and Sobel (2005)) as well as socio-economic outcomes (Hsiang, Meng and Cane (2011)).”
Weak States: Causes and Consequences of the Sicilian Mafia (2019, background): “(12)Lupo (1996) discusses a handful of cases of members of the Fasci who joined the Mafia, but this seems to have been not a general pattern, and usually, it was short lived.”
Loss of cultural world heritage and currently inhabited places to sea-level rise (2014, background): “Studies on the socio-economic impact of climate change (Hsiang et al 2011) and specifically SLR (Pardaens et al 2011, Nicholls et al 1999, Nicholls 2004, Hinkel et al 2013) are generally limited to the 21st century, because of the time horizon of socio-economic development and planning (Moss et al…”
Understanding barriers to decision making in the UK energy-food-water nexus: The added value of interdisciplinary approaches (2016, background): “The paper presents findings from five themed workshops (shocks and hazards, infrastructure, local economy, governance and governments, finance and insurance) with 80 stakeholders from academia, government and industry in the UK to explore the impact of climate and weather shocks across the…”
Conflict, Climate, and Cells: A Disaggregated Analysis (2018, positive): “In our benchmark specification, this is conditional on cell fixed effects 1 Recent exceptions include Hsiang, Meng, and Cane (2011), who employ El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO); Couttenier and Soubeyran (2014), who employ the Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI); and Almer, Laurent-Lucchetti,…”