1,084
Views
10
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Articles

Violent conflicts and natural disasters: the growing case for cross-disciplinary dialogue

&
Pages 1239-1255 | Received 04 Nov 2013, Accepted 14 Apr 2014, Published online: 02 Oct 2014

Bibliography

  • Albala-Bertrand, J. M. “Complex Emergencies versus Natural Disasters: An Analytical Comparison of Causes and Effects.” Oxford Development Studies 28, no. 2 (2000): 187–204.
  • Amnesty International. Haiti Aftershocks: Women speak out against Sexual Violence in Haiti’s Camps. London: Amnesty International Publications, 2011.
  • Anderson, Mary B. Do No Harm: How Aid can Support Peace or War. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1999.
  • Antilla-Hughes, J. K., and Solomon Hsiang. Destruction, Disinvestment, and Death: Economic and Human Losses Following Environmental Disaster. Working paper (2013). http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2220501.
  • Barnett, Michael, and Thomas Weiss. “Humanitarianism: A Brief History of the Present.” In Humanitarianism in Question: Politics, Power, Ethics, edited by M. Barnett, and T. Weiss, 1–48. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2008.
  • Beardsley, Kyle, and Brian McQuinn. “Rebel Groups as Predatory Organizations: The Political Effects of the 2004 Tsunami in Indonesia and Sri Lanka.” Journal of Conflict Resolution 53, no. 4 (2009): 624–645.
  • Bergholt, Drago, and Paivi Lujala. “Climate Related Natural Disasters, Economic Growth, and Armed Civil Conflict.” Journal of Peace Research 49, no. 1 (2012): 147–162.
  • Bernauer, Thomas, Vally Koubi, Anna Kalbhenn, and Gabrielle Spilker. “Climate Variability, Economic Growth, and Civil Conflict.” Journal of Peace Research 49, no. 1 (2012): 113–127.
  • Boutros-Ghali, Boutros. An Agenda for Peace: Preventative Diplomacy, Peacemaking and Peace-keeping. New York: United Nations, 1992.
  • Brainard, Lael, Abigail Jones, and Nigel Purvis. Climate Change and Global Poverty: A Billion Lives in the Balance? Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 2009.
  • Brancati, Dawn. “Political Aftershocks: The Impact of Earthquakes on Intrastate Conflict.” Journal of Conflict Resolution 51, no. 5 (2007): 715–743.
  • Brown, Michael E. Ethnic Conflict and International Security. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993.
  • Brown, Oli, and Robert McLeman. “A Recurring Anarchy? The Emergence of Climate Change as a Threat to International Peace and Security.” Conflict, Security & Development 9, no. 3 (2009): 289–305.
  • Buhaug, Halvard, Nils Petter Gleditsch, and Ole Magnus Theisen. “Implications of Climate Change for Armed Conflict.” In Social Dimensions of Climate Change: Equity and Vulnerability, edited by Robin Mearns and Andy Norton, 75–101. Washington, DC: World Bank, 2010.
  • Burd-Sharps, Sarah, Kristen Lewis, and Eduardo Borges Martins. The Measure of America: American Human Development Report 2008–2009. New York: ssrc/Columbia University Press, 2008.
  • Burke, Marshall, Edward Miguel, Shanker Satyanath, John A. Dykeme, and David B. Lobell. “Warming Increases Risk of Civil War in Africa.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106, no. 49 (2009): 20670–20674.
  • Buckland, Peter. Reshaping the Future. Washington, DC: World Bank, 2005.
  • Calhoun, Craig. “The Idea of Emergency: Humanitarian Action and Global (Dis)Order.” In Contemporary States of Emergency: The Politics of Military and Humanitarian Interventions, edited by D. Fassin, and M. Pandolfi, 29–58. New York: Zone Books, 2010.
  • Cawthorne, Andrew, and Joseph Guyler Delva. 2010. “Quake Destruction ‘Like in a War’: Haiti President.” Reuters, Jan 15. http://mobile.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE60E60T20100115.
  • Center for Human Rights and Global Justice. “Sexual Violence in Haitian idp camps: Results of a Household Survey.” 2011. http://www.chrgj.org/press/docs/Haiti%20Sexual%20Violence%20March%202011.pdf.
  • Center for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (cred). “2008 Disasters in Numbers.” Department of Public Health, Catholic University of Louvain, 2009.
  • Ceyhan, Esra, and A. Aykut Ceyhan. “Earthquake Survivors’ Quality of Life and Academic Achievement Six Years after the Earthquakes in Marmara, Turkey.” Disasters 31, no. 4 (2007): 516–529.
  • Ciccone, Antonio. “Economic Shocks and Civil Conflict: A Comment.” American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 3, no. 4 (2011): 215–227.
  • Clark, Peggy, Dan Glickman, David Monsma, Toni Verstandig, and Nic Buckley. “What is Food Security?” The Aspen Idea. Summer (2013): 78–81.
  • Collier, Paul. “Doing Well out of War: An Economic Perspective.” In Greed and Grievance: Economic Agendas in Civil Wars, edited by Mats Berdal, and David Malone, 91–111. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2000.
  • Collier, Paul. The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What can be Done about it. London: Oxford University Press, 2007.
  • Collier, Paul, Lani Elliott, Håvard Hegre, Anke Hoeffler, Marta Reynal-Querol, and Nicholas Sambanis. Breaking the Conflict Trap: Civil War and Development Policy. Washington, DC: World Bank, 2003.
  • Corty, Jean-Francois. “It Reminds Me of Images from a War Zone.” Doctors Without Borders, October 20, 2005. http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/news/article.cfm?id=1613.
  • Cutter, Susan. Hazards, Vulnerability and Environmental Justice. London: Earthscan, 2006.
  • Cutter, Susan L., and Christina Finch. “Temporal and Spatial Changes in Social Vulnerability to Natural Hazards.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 105, no. 7 (2008): 2301–2306.
  • Dayton-Johnson, Jeff. Natural Disasters and Adaptive Capacity. oecd Development Center Working Paper 237. Paris: oecd, 2004.
  • Dell, Melissa, Benjamin F. Jones, and Benjamin A. Olken. Climate Change and Economic Growth: Evidence from the Last Half Century. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2008.
  • De Silva, Amarasiri. “Ethnicity, Politics and Inequality: Post-tsunami Humanitarian Aid Delivery in Ampara District, Sri Lanka.” Disasters 33, no. 2 (2009): 253–273.
  • De Waal, Alex. Famine Crimes: Politics and the Disaster Relief Industry. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994.
  • Duffield, Mark. Global Governance and the New Wars: Merging of Development and Security. London: Zed Books, 2001.
  • Duffield, Mark. “Complex Emergencies and the Crisis of Developmentalism.” ids Bulletin 25, no. 4 (1994): 1–15.
  • Field, C. B., V. Barros, T. F. Stocker, D. Qin, D. J. Dokken, K. L. Ebi, M. D. Mastrandrea, K. J. Mach, G. K. Plattner, S. K. Allen, M. Tignor, and P. M. Midgley, eds. Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation: Special Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
  • Foreign Policy and the Fund for Peace. “The 2010 Failed States Index.” http://www.foreignpolicy.com.
  • Flint, Julie, and Alex de Waal. A Short History of a Long War. New York: Zed Books, 2008.
  • Gawronski, Vincent T., and Richard Stuart Olsen. “Disasters as Crisis Triggers for Critical Junctures? The 1976 Guatemala Case.” Latin American Politics and Society 55, no. 2 (2013): 133–149.
  • Ghobarath, Hazem, Paul Huth, and Bruce Russett. “Civil Wars Kill and Maim People – Long after Shooting Stops.” American Political Science Review 97, no. 2 (2003): 189–202.
  • Gleditsch, Nils Petter. “Whither the Weather? Climate Change and Conflict.” Journal of Peace Research 49, no. 3 (2012): 3–9.
  • Harris, Katie, David Keen, and Tom Mitchell. When Disasters and Conflicts Collide: Improving Links between Disaster Resilience and Conflict Prevention. London: Overseas Development Institute, 2013.
  • Homer-Dixon, Thomas. Environment, Scarcity, and Violence. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001.
  • Hsiang, Solomon M. “Temperatures and Cyclones Strongly Associated with Economic Production in the Caribbean and Central America.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107, no. 35 (2010): 15367–15372.
  • Hsiang, Solomon M., Kyle C. Meng, and Mark A. Cane. “Civil Conflicts are Associated with the Global Climate.” Nature 476, no. 7361 (2011): 438–441.
  • Human Security Centre. Human Security Report 2009/2010: The Causes of Peace and the Shrinking Costs of War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
  • Humphreys, Macartan, and Paul Richards. Prospects and Opportunities for Achieving the mdgs in Post-conflict Countries: A Case Study of Sierra Leone and Liberia. New York: Earth Institute/Center on Globalization and Sustainable Development, 2005.
  • Jackson, Richard. “The State and Internal Conflict.” Australian Journal of International Affairs 55, no. 1 (2001): 65–81.
  • Jones, Benjamin F., and Benjamin A. Olken. Climate Shocks and Exports. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2010.
  • Kaldor, Mary. New and Old Wars: Organised Violence in a Global Era, 2nd ed. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2006.
  • King, Elisabeth. “The Multiple Relationships between Education and Conflict: Reflections of Rwandan Teachers and Students.” In Educating Children in Conflict Zones: A Tribute to Jackie Kirk, edited by Karen Mundy, and Sarah Dryden-Peterson, 137–151. New York: Teachers College Press, 2011.
  • Klein, Alisa. Sexual Violence in Disasters: A Planning Guide for Prevention and Response. Washington, DC: Center for Disease Control and Prevention/US Department of Justice, Office on Violence against Women, 2008.
  • Klein, Richard, J. T., Robert J. Nicholls, and Frank Thomalla. “Resilience to Natural Hazards: How Useful is this Concept?” Environmental Hazards 5, no. 1 (2003): 35–45.
  • Lacina, Bethany, and Nils Petter Gleditsch. “Monitoring Trends in Global Combat: A New Dataset of Battle Deaths.” European Journal of Population 21 (2005): 145–166.
  • Miguel, Edward, Shanker Satyanath, and Ernest Sergenti. “Economic Shocks and Civil Conflict: An Instrumental Variables Approach.” Journal of Political Economy 112 (2004): 725–753.
  • Mutter, John C. “Perceiving the Social and Economic Consequences of Natural Disaster Shocks: Getting Ready for Climate Change.” In The Urban Transformation: Health, Shelter and Climate Change, edited by Elliott Sclar, Nicole Volavka-Close and Peter Brown, 173–196. London: Routledge, 2012.
  • Nel, Philip, and Marjolein Righarts. “Natural Disasters and the Risk of Violent Civil Conflict.” International Studies Quarterly 52 (2008): 159–185.
  • Nusrat, Rabia, and Baela Raza Jamil. “Earthquake and Education in Emergencies: An Opportunity and a Challenge”. Paper presented at the ninth ukfiet International Conference on Education and Development, Oxford, September 11–13, 2007.
  • O’Brien, Karen, Linda Sygna, Robin Leichenko, W. Neil Adger, Jon Barnett, Tom Mitchell, Lisa Schipper, Thomas Tanner, Coleen Vogel, and Colette Mortreux. Disaster Risk Reduction, Climate Change Adaptation and Human Security. Oslo: Global Environmental Change and Human Security, University of Oslo, 2008.
  • Omelicheva, Mariya Y. “Natural Disasters: Triggers of Political Instability?” International Interactions: Empirical and Theoretical Research in International Relations 37, no. 4 (2011): 441–465.
  • Orbinski, James. An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action in the Twenty-first Century. Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 2008.
  • Parry, Martin, Osvaldo Canziani, Jean Palutikof, Paul van der Linden, and Clair Hanson. “Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability.” Contribution of Working Group 2 to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
  • Pelling, Mark. The Vulnerability of Cities: Social Resilience and Natural Disaster. London: Earthscan, 2003.
  • Peluso, Nancy Lee, and Michael Watts, eds. Violent Environments. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2001.
  • Phelan, Kevin. “From an Idea to Action: The Evolution of Médecins sans Frontières.” In The New Humanitarians: Inspiration, Innovations and Blueprints for Visionaries, edited by Chris E. Stout, 1–30. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2008.
  • Qureshi, Jawad Hussain, and Thomas Bamforth. “Political Complexities of Humanitarian Intervention in the Pakistan Earthquake.” Journal of Humanitarian Assistance, 2007. http://sites.tufts.edu/jha/archives/12.
  • Raleigh, Clionadh. “Political Marginalization, Climate Change, and Conflict in African Sahel States.” International Studies Review 12, no. 1 (2010): 69–86.
  • Reuveny, Rafael, A. “Ecomigration and Violent Conflict: Case Studies and Public Policy Implications.” Human Ecology 36 (2008): 1–13.
  • Reychler, Luc. “Proactive Conflict Prevention: Impact Assessment?” International Journal of Peace Studies 3, no. 2 (1998). http://www.gmu.edu/programs/icar/ijps/vol3_2/reychler.htm.
  • Salama, Peter, Paul Spiegel, Leisel Talley, and Ronald Waldman. “Lessons Learned from Complex Emergencies over Past Decade.” Lancet 364 (2004): 1801–1813.
  • Salehyan, Idean. “From Climate Change to Conflict? No Consensus Yet.” Journal of Peace Research 45, no. 3 (2008): 315–326.
  • Sandholt-Jensen, Peter, and Kristian Skrede Gleditsch. “Rain, Growth and Civil War: The Importance of Location.” Defence and Peace Economics 20, no. 5 (2009): 359–372.
  • Schubert, Renate, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Nina Buchmann, Astrid Epiney, Rainer Griebhammer, Margareta E. Kulessa, Dirk Messner, Stefan Rahmstorf, and Jürgen Schmid. Climate Change as a Security Risk. London: Earthscan, 2008.
  • Slettebak, Rune T., and Indra de Soysa. “High Temps, High Tempers? Weather-related Natural Disasters and Civil Conflict”. Draft paper for the Conference on Climate Change and Security, Trondheim, June 21–24, 2010.
  • Slettebak, Rune T. “Don’t Blame the Weather! Climate-related Natural Disasters and Civil Conflict.” Journal of Peace Research 49, no. 1 (2012): 163–176.
  • Snyder, Mary Gail. “It didn’t Begin with Katrina: National Housing Institute.” Shelterforce 143 (2005). http://www.nhi.org/online/issues/143/beforekatrina.html.
  • Steinbruner, John D., Paul C. Stern, and Jo L. Husbands. Climate and Social Stress: Implications for Security Analysis. Washington, DC: National Academies Press, 2013.
  • Stern, Nicholas. The Economics of Climate Change: Stern Review. London: hm Treasury, 2006.
  • Stevens, Garry B., Raphael, and M. Dobson. “The Public Effects of Disasters and Mass Violence.” In Encyclopedia of Stress. 2nd ed., edited by George Fink, 814–824. Maltham: Academic Press, 2007.
  • Stewart, Frances. “Horizontal Inequalities and Conflict: Understanding Group Violence in Multiethnic Societies.” Paper presented at ‘Conflict Prevention and Peaceful Development: Policies to Reduce Inequality and Exclusion’, crise Policy Conference, Oxford, July 9–10, 2007.
  • Stokes, Christopher. 2010. “Drowning Humanitarian Aid.” Foreign Policy Online. October 27. http://afpak.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/10/27/drowning_humanitarian_aid.
  • United Nations Environment Programme (unep) “Sudan Post-conflict Environmental Assessment.” 2007. http://www.unep.org/sudan/post-conflict/.
  • unep. 2010. “Environmental and Socioeconomic Impacts of Armed Conflict in Africa.” In The Encyclopedia of Earth. http://www.eoearth.org/view/article/152607/
  • United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (unhcr). Facts and Figures about Refugees from the 2011 Global Report. Geneva: unhcr, 2011.
  • Wax, Emily. 2008. “Like a Tsunami that won’t End.” Washington Post, April 12. http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2008-04-12/world/36896522_1_ethnic-sinhalese-majority-liberation-tigers-tamil-eelam.
  • Weiss, Thomas G. “Principles, Politics, and Humanitarian Action.” Ethics and International Affairs 13, no. 1 (1999): 1–22.
  • Wisner, Ben, Piers Blaikie, Terry Cannon, and Ian Davis. At Risk: Natural Hazards, People’s Vulnerability and Disasters, 2nd ed. London: Routledge, 2003.
  • Woodward, Susan L. “Economic Priorities for Successful Peace Implementation.” In Ending Civil Wars: The Implementation of Peace Agreements, edited by Steven Stedman, Donald Rothchild and M. Elizabeth Cousens, 183–214. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2002.
  • World Bank. World Development Report 2011: Conflict, Security and Development. Washington, DC: World Bank, 2011.
  • Yonetaki, Michelle. Global Estimates 2012: People Displaced by Disasters. Oslo: Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre and Norwegian Refugee Council, 2013.

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.