U31A:
Conflict Ecology: Exploring Relationships Between Environmental Change and Armed Conflict
Session ID#: 3620
Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
3002 (Moscone West)
Chairs: Jamon Van Den Hoek, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States and Kramer Gillin, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Geography, Madison, WI, United States
Primary Convener: Jamon Van Den Hoek, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States
Co-Convener: Kramer Gillin, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Geography, Madison, WI, United States
Virtual Option?: No
Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
Quantifying the Influence of Climate on Human Conflict (Invited) (27633)
Solomon M Hsiang, University of California, Berkeley, Goldman School of Public Policy, Berkeley, United States, Marshall Burke, Stanford University, Stanford, United States and Edward Miguel, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
Space View of the 1991 Gulf War Kuwaiti Oil Fires (Invited) (6059)
Omar Torres, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, Pawan K Bhartia, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and David Larko, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States
The Impact of Conflict on Forests in South Sudan (Invited) (8100)
Virginia Gorsevski1, Eric S Kasischke2, Jan Dempewolf3, Tatiana V Loboda4 and Martha Geores3, (1)The Global Environment Facility Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel, Washington, DC, United States, (2)NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States, (3)University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (4)University of Maryland, College Park, United States
Environmental Change and Conflict in Kenya: Perceived and actual Drought Effects on Sense of Personal Insecurity and Violent Beliefs (Invited) (6501)
Andrew M. Linke1, John O'Loughlin2, Frank Witmer1, J. Terrence McCabe3 and Jaroslav Tir4, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, Institute of Behavioral Science, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, Geography, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of Colorado at Boulder, Anthropology, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)University of Colorado at Boulder, Political Science, Boulder, CO, United States
