The surface urban heat island (SUHI), which represents the difference of land surface
temperature (LST) in urban relativity to neighboring non-urban surfaces, is usually …

The link between climate change and conflict has been discussed intensively in academic
literature during the past decade. This review aims to provide a clearer picture of what the …

Despite the lack of robust empirical evidence, a growing number of media reports attempt to
link climate change to the ongoing violent conflicts in Syria and other parts of the world, as …

East Africa (EA) has been the primary focus for various drought studies in recent years.
However, a comprehensive analysis of droughts, including their evolution, complexity, social …

During the past few decades, technologies such as remote sensing, geographical
information systems, and global positioning systems have transformed the way the …

A rapidly growing body of research applies panel methods to examine how temperature,
precipitation, and windstorms influence economic outcomes. These studies focus on …

We review the emerging literature on climate and conflict. We consider multiple types of
human conflict, including both interpersonal conflict, such as assault and murder, and …

In the first two decades of the 21st century, 79 global big cities have suffered extensively
from drought disaster. Meanwhile, climate change has magnified urban drought in both …

Human security will be progressively threatened as the climate changes (robust evidence,
high agreement). Human insecurity almost never has single causes, but instead emerges …

This article presents the UCDP Georeferenced Event Dataset (UCDP GED). The UCDP GED
is an event dataset that disaggregates three types of organized violence (state-based …