The Role of Institutions for Environmental Security
Studies have shown that environmental stresses are increasingly correlated with conflicts. Miguel et al. (2004) posit that economic growth is strongly negatively correlated with civil conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa, with rainfall being an exogenic instrumental variable for economic growth. Another study by Ash and Obradovich (2020) found that climate-induced internal migration led to increased political instability in Syria, which exploded into the Syrian Civil War in 2011. Environmental...
