![]() Theisen and coworkers, for example, conducted a review of the available literature that provides empirical analyses on how climate or environmental change is related to intrastate conflicts. A lot of the current interest in this topic is spurred by the availability of mostly country-scale data on climate and conflicts that don’t take into account spatial variability of resource availability, demographics (including ethnicity, income levels, etc.), and climate at national and regional scales. However, the increasing attention on the topic has so far failed to properly acknowledge the acute shortage of primary, empirical data in this area of research. The current attention on how climate change can increase the damage caused by armed conflicts is ultimately motivated by theories that suggest that resource availability and access are the root causes of most violent conflicts because climate change is expected to have serious implications for resource access and availability for the fast-growing global human population. This is following a couple of decades of discussions on the relationship of armed or violent conflicts with climate and climate change. ![]() ![]() The war in Ukraine has now motivated a lot of interest on how wars are related to ongoing concerns with climate change. ![]()
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