Browsing Institutt for sosiologi og statsvitenskap by Journals "Environmental Research Letters"
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Can the court bridge the gap? Public perception of economic vs. generational inequalities in climate change mitigation policies
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Climate change and most climate policies affect and reinforce different forms of inequalities. For instance, climate change policies that aim to change consumer behavior by increasing the price tag of goods and services ... -
Climate variability, food production shocks, and violent conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)Earlier research that reports a correlational pattern between climate anomalies and violent conflict routinely refers to drought-induced agricultural shocks and adverse economic spillover effects as a key causal mechanism ... -
Forecasting civil conflict along the shared socioeconomic pathways
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Climate change and armed civil conflict are both linked to socioeconomic development, although conditions that facilitate peace may not necessarily facilitate mitigation and adaptation to climate change. While economic ... -
Projecting armed conflict risk in Africa towards 2050 along the SSP-RCP scenarios: a machine learning approach
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)In the past decade, several efforts have been made to project armed conflict risk into the future. This study broadens current approaches by presenting a first-of-its-kind application of machine learning (ML) methods to ...