Climate, Scarcity and Conflict

Fetzek, Shiloh; Mazo, Jeffrey

doi:10.1080/00396338.2014.962803

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“…This research is limited in two significant ways, the first of which pertains to the author’s choice to assess personal worry about climate change rather than a more encompassing one that concerned inter-group conflicts and/or resource scarcity [ 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 ]. Thus, the CCWS and the research reported here represents a first step to assess and quantify climate change worry.…”

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“…In addition to these direct influences of the weather and climate upon people, global climate change has disrupted and destroyed ecosystems and thus threatened human, animal, and botanical habitats [ 7 ]. Climate change has also threatened supplies of food, water, and other resources, which has heightened the possibilities for inter-group conflicts [ 8 , 9 , 10 ].…”

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“…Borkovec and colleagues provided an initial definition of worry that has generally been supported by empirical research over time: “Worry is a chain of thoughts and images, negatively affect-laden and relatively uncontrollable; it represents an attempt to engage in mental problem-solving on an issue whose outcome is uncertain but contains the possibility of one or more negative outcomes; consequently, worry relates closely to the fear process.” [ 10 , 42 ].…”

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Psychometric Properties of the Climate Change Worry Scale

Stewart

2021

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Climate change worry involves primarily verbal-linguistic thoughts about the changes that may occur in the climate system and the possible effects of these changes. Such worry is one of several possible psychological responses (e.g., fear, anxiety, depression, and trauma) to climate change. Within this article, the psychometric development of the ten-item Climate Change Worry Scale (CCWS) is detailed in three studies. The scale was developed to assess proximal worry about climate change rather than social or global impacts. Study 1 provided evidence that the CCWS items were internally consistent, constituted a single factor, and that the facture structure of the items was invariant for men and women. The results from Study 1 also indicated a good fit with a Rasch model of the items. Study 2 affirmed the internal consistency of the CCWS items and indicated that peoples’ responses to the measure were temporally stable over a two-week test–retest interval (r = 0.91). Study 3 provided support for the convergent and divergent validity of the CCWS through its pattern of correlations with several established clinical and weather-related measures. The limitations of the studies and the possible uses of the CCWS were discussed. The current work represents a starting point.

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2021

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“…Several recent publications, e.g., [1][2][3][4][5][6], and innumerable commentators, have posited that consecutive droughts and climate change were the primary causes of the 2011 unrest in Syria and the subsequent military conflict. According to this view, the breakdown of Syrian agriculture caused mass rural-urban migration, economic turbulence, and civil instability.…”

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Was Drought Really the Trigger Behind the Syrian Civil War in 2011?

Karnieli

Shtein

Panov

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The role played by unsustainable resource management in initiating international conflicts is well documented. The Syrian Civil War, commencing in March 2011, presents such a case. The prevailing opinion links the unrest with sequential droughts occurring from 2007-2010. Our research, however, reveals that the winter-rainfed agricultural conditions before 2011, as detected by satellite-derived vegetation indices, were similar and even better for Syrian farmers than for those of their Turkish counterparts across the border. Concurrently, summer-irrigated crops, heavily dependent on Euphrates River water originating from Turkey, notably declined in Syria while flourishing in Turkey. These findings are firmly supported by other independent and validated datasets, including long-term cross-border discharge, the water level in Syrian and Turkish reservoirs, and transborder groundwater flow. We conclude that the Turkish policy of unilaterally diverting the Euphrates water was the main reason for the agricultural collapse and subsequent instability in Syria in 2011. The obvious inference is that while prolonged drought exacerbated conditions, unsustainable anthropogenic water management in Turkey was the proximate cause behind the Syrian uprising.

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“…Emergió precariedad y malestar en la periferia de las ciudades (donde las protestas prenderán más intensa y rápidamente), en contraste con sectores urbanos más beneficiados por la liberalización. Además, la institucionalidad, muy dependiente del aparato coercitivo, no se renovaba al ritmo demandado por la población, había carencias de libertades y derechos políticos, una situación económica desfavorable y se percibían altos niveles de corrupción gubernamental y una burocracia ineficaz (Fetzek y Mazo, 2014;Lo Cascio, 2016: 5-6;Sapag, 2019: 69-79).…”

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Francia en la guerra de Siria

Roche

2022

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A partir del método de las estructuras históricas de Cox, este trabajo analiza el papel de Francia en la guerra en Siria iniciada en 2011. Se propone que Francia ha sido un condicionante previo por la herencia histórica del mandato colonial, pero se ha visto limitada por inconsistencias en sus capacidades. Primero se trata el método de las estructuras históricas. Después, se revisan las relaciones entre ambos países y sus implicaciones para el tema estudiado. Seguidamente, se recorre la acción de Francia en la contienda siria de 2011. Finalmente, se exponen los principales resultados obtenidos.

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Climate, Scarcity and Conflict

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Psychometric Properties of the Climate Change Worry Scale

Psychometric Properties of the Climate Change Worry Scale

Was Drought Really the Trigger Behind the Syrian Civil War in 2011?

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