This book links climate change and resource scarcity to violent conflict.

Judith M. Bretthauer is a project manager at the Sanddorf Stiftung, Germany, and has a PhD in Political Science from the VU University, Netherlands.

1. Climate Change, Resource Scarcity and Armed Conflict

2. Economic Explanations: Development, Dependence and Diversification

3. Political Explanations: Dimensions of State Capacities

4. Social Explanations: Inequality and Adaptive Skills

5. Bringing Economic, Political and Social Explanations Together

6. Conclusion