Topic Guide: Conflict, Climate and Environment
Publisher: Evidence on Demand
Author(s): Katie Peters and Janani Vivekananda
Date: 2014
Topics: Climate Change, Conflict Causes, Governance, Livelihoods, Programming
This Topic Guide will support Department for International Development (DFID) advisers in the Conflict, Security and Justice Cadres as well as the Humanitarian, Climate and Environment Cadres in gaining a greater understanding of the importance and complexity of the links between conflict, climate and environment. The Topic Guide focuses on violent conflict at the sub-national, national and trans-boundary level in relation to natural resources, climate variability, climate change and environmental change. The guide concentrates on longer-term development objectives to build resilience, support adaptation, create peace and address underlying causes of vulnerability. Complementary topics in the series include the Topic Guide on Resilience, Topic Guide on Water, Security and Economic Development, and the Topic Guide on Conflict Sensitivity.