Die Unterzeichnung des Samoa-Abkommens im November 2023 markiert eine Ausweitung der Kernbereiche der EU-Entwicklungszusammenarbeit. Dieser Beitrag zeigt, auf welche Weise der Schwerpunktbereich Klimawandel alle anderen Kernziele des Samoa-Abkommens beeinflusst: nachhaltige...

Gewaltsame Konflikte führen direkt oder indirekt über Risikokaskaden zu Schocks, die sich auf das Welternährungssystem auswirken. Bevölkerungswachstum, soziale Spannungen und der Klimawandel verstärken die Gefahr von Hunger und Ernährungsunsicherheit, sie sind aber nach Meinung von Reimund...

The Samoa Agreement in November 2023 marks an expansion of the EU's core areas of development cooperation. This article shows how climate change affects other priority areas of economic, political and social development. Two adaptation measures deserve more attention: The EU development policy...

Die Unterzeichnung des Samoa-Abkommens im November 2023 markiert eine Ausweitung der Kernbereiche der EU-Entwicklungszusammenarbeit. Dieser Beitrag zeigt, auf welche Weise der Schwerpunktbereich Klimawandel alle anderen Kernziele des Samoa-Abkommens beeinflusst: nachhaltige...

The Samoa Agreement in November 2023 marks an expansion of the EU's core areas of development cooperation. This article shows how climate change affects other priority areas of economic, political and social development. Two adaptation measures deserve more attention: The EU development policy...

The paper studies whether a drought in 1788 affected the outbreak of peasant revolts during the French Revolution. I construct a community-level data set with information on local drought severity and peasant uprisings in 1789. Results indicate that those more affected by the drought more often...

We study the impact of the Fridays for Future climate protest movement in Germany on citizen political behavior and explore possible mechanisms. Throughout 2019, large crowds of young protesters, the majority of whom were under voting age, skipped school to demand immediate and far-reaching...

Sub-Saharan Africa ranks as one of the world’s poorest regions. The causes of this are exceptionally complex, with political instability, lack of security, low levels of education, poor access to infrastructure and lack of integration into global trade networks as the leading explanations,...

The paper studies whether a drought in 1788 affected the outbreak of peasant revolts during the French Revolution. I construct a community-level data set with information on local drought severity and peasant uprisings in 1789. Results indicate that those more affected by the drought more often...