Our article contributes to the emerging micro-level strand of the literature on the link between local variations in weather shocks and conflicts by focusing on a pixel-level analysis for North and South Sudan between 1997 and 2009. Temperature anomalies are found to strongly affect the risk of conflict, whereas the risk is expected to magnify in a range of 24–31% in the future under a median scenario. ...
In:
Journal of Economic Geography
15 (2015), 3, S. 649-671
| Jean-Francois Maystadt, Margherita Calderone, Liangzhi You
Weather shocks and natural disasters, it has been argued, represent a major threat to national and international security. Our paper contributes to the emerging micro-level strand of the literature on the link between local variations in weather shocks and conflict by focusing on a pixel-level analysis for North and South Sudan at different geographical and time scales between 1997 and 2009. Temperature ...
Leuven:
LICOS,
2013,
67 S.
(LICOS Discussion Paper Series ; 335)
| Margherita Calderone, Jean-Francois Maystadt, Liangzhi You
Weather shocks and natural disasters, it has been argued, represent a major threat to national and international security. Our paper contributes to the emerging micro-level strand of the literature on the link between local variations in weather shocks and conflict by focusing on a pixel-level analysis for North and South Sudan at different geographical and time scales between 1997 and 2009. Temperature ...
Brighton:
HiCN,
2013,
67 S.
(HiCN Working Paper ; 149)
| Margherita Calderone, Jean-Francois Maystadt, Liangzhi You
Weather shocks and natural disasters, it has been argued, represent a major threat to national and international security. Our paper contributes to the emerging micro-level strand of the literature on the link between local variations in weather shocks and conflict by focusing on a pixel-level analysis for North and South Sudan at different geographical and time scales between 1997 and 2009. Temperature ...
Washington D.C.:
IFPRI,
2013,
68 S.
(IFPRI Discussion Paper ; 1276)
| Margherita Calderone, Jean-Francois Maystadt, Liangzhi You