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Climate Change and Collective Violence
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Climate change is causing increases in temperature, changes in precipitation and extreme weather events, sea-level rise, and other environmental impacts. It is also causing or contributing to heat-related disorders, respiratory and allergic disorders, infectious diseases, malnutrition due to food insecurity, and mental health disorders. In addition, increasing evidence indicates that climate change is causally associated with collective violence, generally in combination with other causal factors. Increased temperatures and extremes of precipitation with their associated consequences, including resultant scarcity of cropland and other key environmental resources, are major pathways by which climate change leads to collective violence. Public health professionals can help prevent collective violence due to climate change (a) by supporting mitigation measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, (b) by promoting adaptation measures to address the consequences of climate change and to improve community resilience, and (c) by addressing underlying risk factors for collective violence, such as poverty and socioeconomic disparities.
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These stressors and competition for available resources may have contributed to conflicts in Nigeria, Uganda, Sudan, and Kenya, although the relative causal contributions of climate change, governance, population pressures, and preexisting sectarian divisions to outbreaks of organized violence remain a subject of intense debate.
“These stressors and competition for available resources may have contributed to conflicts in Nigeria [63], Uganda [64], Sudan [65], and Kenya [66], although the relative causal contributions of climate change, governance, population pressures, and preexisting sectarian divisions to outbreaks of organized violence remain a subject of intense debate [31, 67, 68].”
From Climate Change, Migration, and Civil Strife. (2020) · cites this paper as [31]
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- Authors
- Levy, B. S., Sidel, V. W., & Patz, J. A.
- Affiliations
- Tufts University (US)
- Weill Cornell Medicine (US)
- University of Wisconsin–Madison (US)
- Venue
- Annual Review of Public Health
- Publisher
- Annual Reviews
- Published
- 2017-03-20
- Volume
- 38
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 241-257
- ISSN
- 0163-7525 (ISSN-L)
- 1545-2093
- PMC
- PMC6098709
- OpenAlex
- W2245245881
- Cited by
- 153
- References
- 63
- Citations by year
- 2026: 13 · 2025: 16 · 2024: 17 · 2023: 27 · 2022: 13 · 2021: 16 · 2020: 21 · 2019: 22 · 2018: 7 · 2017: 1
- FWCI
- 1.46
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Annual Review of Public Health (publishedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- Funders
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (P2CHD047873)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis › Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Transboundary Water Resource Management
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law › Environmental and Biological Research in Conflict Zones
- Keywords
- climate change, collective violence, climate change and conflict, food insecurity, malnutrition, infectious diseases, mental health, heavy rainfall, sea level rise, greenhouse gas emissions reduction, climate change adaptation, community resilience, public health prevention
- MeSH terms
- Communicable Diseases, Humans, Public Health, Violence, Weather, Climate Change
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