Research Further Links Syria’s Political Upheaval and Climate Change
Publisher: International Peace Institute
Author(s): Colin P. Kelley, Mark A. Cane, Richard Seager, Shahrzad Mohtadi, and Yochanan Kushnir
Date: 2015
The former Fertile Crescent region of the Middle East—where agriculture and animal herding are believed to have originated some 12,000 years ago—is home to several of the so-called “Arab Spring” countries including Syria, which devolved into a civil war shortly after the most severe multiyear drought (2007-2010) in the observed record, essentially since the beginning of the 20th century.