Climate change-induced migration and violent conflict

Reuveny, Rafael

doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2007.05.001

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“…The impact of climate change on migration is not well-understood either (Barrios et al 2006;Bates 2002;Kuentzel and Ramaswamy 2005;Reuveny 2007). Relationships are much more complex than in the case of energy demand, but an improved synthesis would increase our confidence in the estimates of the social cost of carbon.…”

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The uncertainty about the social cost of carbon: A decomposition analysis using fund

2013

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Abstract:We report the results of an uncertainty decomposition analysis of the social cost of carbon as estimated by FUND, a model that has a more detailed representation of the economic impact of climate change than any other model. Some of the parameters particularly influence impacts in the short run whereas other parameters are important in the long run. Some parameters are influential in some regions only. Some parameters are known reasonably well, but others are not. Ethical values, such as the pure rate of time preference and the rate of risk aversion, therefore affect not only the social cost of carbon, but also the importance of the parameters that determine its value. Some parameters, however, are consistently important: cooling energy demand, migration, climate sensitivity, and agriculture. The last two are subject to a large research effort, but the first two are not.

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The uncertainty about the social cost of carbon: A decomposition analysis using fund

2013

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“…News accounts and academic studies have focused on the struggles of these environmental refugees in urban slums, and on the possibility of violent conflict (e.g. Reuveny (2007)). Our results suggest that migrants and the economies that receive them are resilient.…”

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“…Reuveny (2007) suggests that the best evidence will come from past experience. He notes that, since 1950, environmental problems have pushed an unknown number of Bangladeshi migrants into urban areas, half a million into the Chittagong Hill Tracts, and more than fifteen million into India.…”

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Partition, Migration, and Jute Cultivation in India

Bharadwaj

Fenske

2009

SSRN Journal

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Abstract. Climate change is expected to displace millions of involuntary migrants in Bangladesh. We draw on history to show that these "environmental refugees" can play a positive role in the regions that receive them by looking at the partition of India. We use an instrumental variables (IV) strategy to show that the migrants played a major role in India's take-up of jute cultivation. Our estimates suggest that migrants fully explain post-Partition jute cultivation. Consistent with migrants bringing jute-specific skills with them, we find that migrants increased jute yields and did not increase the cultivation of other crops.

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“…Second, climate-related factors can in several ways force people to migrate [16]. This can cause conflict in at least four complementary ways: struggles between hosts and newcomers over scarce resources, when newcomers are perceived as a threat, when the demographic size of newcomers alters local power-relations, and when premigration tensions between the groups exist [17].…”

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Climate Change and Violence: Insights from Political Science

Theisen

2017

Curr Clim Change Rep

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Purpose of Review The aim of this review is to understand the state of the art of research related to climate change and collectively organized violence from a broad political science perspective. Recent Findings An increasing share of quantitative studies find a link between weather anomalies and violence for some forms of violence, but the directions are not always consistent and the mechanisms are not satisfactorily understood. Nonnaturalist scholars note important reservations. Summary Important improvements have been made during the last few years, but much remains to conclude that climate change will increase the risk of violence. An increased focus on the political consequences of adaptation and mitigation is needed.

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Climate change-induced migration and violent conflict

Cited by 752 publications

References 23 publications

The uncertainty about the social cost of carbon: A decomposition analysis using fund

The uncertainty about the social cost of carbon: A decomposition analysis using fund

Partition, Migration, and Jute Cultivation in India

Climate Change and Violence: Insights from Political Science

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