U31A:
Conflict Ecology: Exploring Relationships Between Environmental Change and Armed Conflict
Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
Primary Convener: Jamon Van Den Hoek, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Co-Convener: Kramer Gillin, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Geography, Madison, WI, United States
Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
8:25 AM
Space View of the 1991 Gulf War Kuwaiti Oil Fires
Omar Torres1, Pawan K Bhartia1 and David Larko2, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States
9:05 AM
The Impact of Conflict on Forests in South Sudan
Virginia Gorsevski1, Eric S Kasischke2, Jan Dempewolf3, Tatiana V Loboda3 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
9:25 AM
Environmental Change and Conflict in Kenya: Perceived and actual Drought Effects on Sense of Personal Insecurity and Violent Beliefs
Andrew Martin 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
