Until recently, neither climate nor conflict have been core areas of inquiry within economics, but there has been an … intersection. In this review, we survey this literature on the interlinkages between climate and conflict, by necessity drawing … many types of human conflict in the review, including both interpersonal conflict -- such as domestic violence, road rage …

Until recently, neither climate nor conflict have been core areas of inquiry within economics, but there has been an … intersection. In this review, we survey this literature on the interlinkages between climate and conflict, by necessity drawing … many types of human conflict in the review, including both interpersonal conflict -- such as domestic violence, road rage …

We review the emerging literature on climate and conflict. We consider multiple types of human conflict, including both … methodological issues in estimating causal relationships and largely focus on natural experiments that exploit variation in climate …, including a better understanding of the mechanisms linking climate to conflict, societies’ ability to adapt to climatic changes …