Conflict

Deforestation and agricultural fires in South-West Pará, Brazil, under political changes from 2014 to 2020.
The increasing deforestation and fires since 2019 raises concerns about the irreversible destruction of the Brazilian Amazon. Our goal …
Benjamin Jakimow, Matthias Baumann, Caroline Salomão, Hugo Bendini, Patrick Hostert
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Societal drought vulnerability and the Syrian climate-conflict nexus are better explained by agriculture than meteorology
Droughts are often suspected to increase the risk of violent conflict through agricultural production shocks, and existing studies …
Lina Eklund, Ole Magnus Theisen, Matthias Baumann, Andreas Forø Tollefsen, Tobias Kuemmerle, Jonas Østergaard Nielsen
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Toward Causal Inference for Spatio-Temporal Data. Conflict and Forest Loss in Colombia
How does armed conflict influence tropical forest loss? For Colombia, both enhancing and reducing effect estimates have been reported. …
Rune Christiansen, Matthias Baumann, Tobias Kuemmerle, Miguel D. Mahecha, Jonas Peters
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The impacts of warfare and armed conflict on land systems
Land-use decisions can change abruptly in response to shocks, and warfare and armed conflicts are among the most drastic and globally …
Matthias Baumann, Tobias Kuemmerle
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Conservation and conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Tropical forests provide critical ecosystem services worldwide. Nonetheless, ongoing agricultural expansion, timber extraction, and …
Van Butsic, Matthias Baumann, Anja Shortland, Volker C. Radeloff, Sarah Walker, Tobias Kuemmerle
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Land-use change in the Caucasus during and after the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
Socioeconomic shocks can shape future land-use trajectories. Armed conflicts are an extreme form of a socioeconomic shock, but our …
Matthias Baumann, Volker C. Radeloff, Vahagn Avedian, Tobias Kuemmerle
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