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Malnutrition and Conflict in Eastern Africa: Impacts of Resource Variability on Human Security

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Climate Change, Human Security and Violent Conflict

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Changes in climate, along with anthropogenic pressures, impact vegetation productivity and the related ecosystem services on which human security relies. The impacts of these climate changes on society will be experienced both through changes in mean conditions over long time periods and through increases in extreme events. Uncertainties remain about how short-term changes in ecosystems influence human security. Most studies analysing the relationship between human security and climate are at the country level, ignoring fine-grained spatial heterogeneity in local climatic and socio-economic conditions.

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  1. Department of Geography. Chichester 1, University of Sussex, Brighton, BN1 9QJ, UK

    Pedram Rowhani

  2. De Pintelaan 185 P3, 9000, Gent, Belgium

    Olivier Degomme

  3. Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED), Department of Public Health, Université Catholique de Louvain, 30.94 Clos Chapelle-aux-Champs, 1200, Brussels, Belgium

    Debarati Guha-Sapir

  4. Department of Geography, Bâtiment Mercator, University of Louvain, place L. Pasteur 3, B-1348, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

    Eric F. Lambin

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    Jürgen Scheffran

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    Michael Brzoska

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  4. ZMAW, Res. Group Climate Change and Security, Hamburg University, Bundesstrasse 53, Hamburg, 20146, Germany

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Rowhani, P., Degomme, O., Guha-Sapir, D., Lambin, E.F. (2012). Malnutrition and Conflict in Eastern Africa: Impacts of Resource Variability on Human Security. In: Scheffran, J., Brzoska, M., Brauch, H., Link, P., Schilling, J. (eds) Climate Change, Human Security and Violent Conflict. Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace, vol 8. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28626-1_27

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