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Renewable Natural Resource Shocks and Conflict Intensity

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  • Kishore Gawande
  • Devesh Kapur
  • Shanker Satyanath

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An interesting stream of the civil conflict literature has identified an important subset of civil conflicts with disastrous consequences, that is, those that emerge as a consequence of shocks to renewable natural resources like land and water. This literature is, however, reliant on qualitative case studies when claiming a causal relationship leading from renewable resource shocks to conflict. In this article, we seek to advance the literature by drawing out the implications of a well-known formal model of the renewable resources–conflict relationship and then conducting rigorous statistical tests of its implications in the case of a serious ongoing civil conflict in India. We find that a one standard deviation decrease in our measure of renewable resources increases killings by nearly 60 percent over the long run.

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  • Kishore Gawande & Devesh Kapur & Shanker Satyanath, 2017. "Renewable Natural Resource Shocks and Conflict Intensity," Journal of Conflict Resolution, Peace Science Society (International), vol. 61(1), pages 140-172, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:jocore:v:61:y:2017:i:1:p:140-172
    DOI: 10.1177/0022002714567949
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