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Winter is coming : the long-run effects of climate change on conflict, 1400-1900
Iyigun, Murat; Nunn, Nathan; Qian, Nancy - 2017
This paper investigates the long-run effects of climate change on conflict by examining cooling from 1400-1900 CE, a period that includes most of the Little Ice Age. We construct a geo-referenced and digitized database of conflicts in Europe, North Africa, and the Near East from 1400-1900, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596150
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Winter is Coming : The Long-Run Effects of Climate Change on Conflict, 1400-1900
Iyigun, Murat - 2017
This paper investigates the long-run effects of climate change on conflict by examining cooling from 1400-1900 CE, a period that includes most of the Little Ice Age. We construct a geo-referenced and digitized database of conflicts in Europe, North Africa, and the Near East from 1400-1900, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012965017
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The economic impact of weather and climate
Tol, Richard S. J. - 2021
I propose a new conceptual framework to disentangle the impacts of weather and climate on economic activity and growth: A stochastic frontier model with climate in the production frontier and weather shocks as a source of inefficiency. I test it on a sample of 160 countries over the period...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012487750
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Climate Change and Political (In)Stability
Balcazar, Carlos Felipe; Kennard, Amanda - 2022
impact real world political mobilization: temperature extremes lead to higher voter turnout and lower probability of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014077549
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Estimating the Dynamic Effects of Global Temperature Cycle on World Business Cycle
Nam, Kyungsik - 2022
This paper establishes the statistical relationship between world business cycle and global temperature cycle. To … evidence that the global mean temperature cycle has negatively affected the world business cycle in super El Nino periods …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013296864
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Die Ära der Fehlentscheidungen : die Energiekrise und die Konsequenzen aus dem Krieg gegen den Terror
Soros, George - 2007 - 1. Aufl.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003323134
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Trapped Between the Falling Sky and the Rising Seas : The Imagined Terrors of the Impacts of Climate Change
Goklany, Indur M. - 2012
becoming greener, as is most of the world. Ironically, much of this improvement in human and environmental well-being has been …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013116409
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New frontiers in conflict management, peace economics and peace science
Chatterji, Madhumita (ed.); Gangopadhyay, Partha (ed.) - 2021
together a diverse, world-leading researchers, this 29th volume of Contributions to Conflict Management, Peace Economics and … Development focuses on some of the most serious challenges to human security posed by intra-state conflict and terrorism …
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Understanding environmental terrorism in times of climate change : implications for asylum seekers in Germany
Kohler, Christina; Santos, Carlos Denner dos; Bursztyn, … - In: Research in globalization 1 (2019), pp. 1-8
With an increasing global population and undeniable climate change, environmental terrorism is causing unprecedented … terrorism, addresses the connections of resources and conflict, and the effects of climatic events on these phenomena. The … from 17 countries hosted in German facilities. The results point to the use of environmental terrorism by governments or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012485909
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Ecological, Societal, and Technological Risks and the Financial Sector
Walker, Thomas (ed.); Gramlich, Dieter (ed.);  … - 2020 - 1st ed. 2020.
Risks -- 7. Terrorism and Trading: Differential Equity and Bond Market Responses during Violent Elections; Tashfeen Hussein …
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