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Overview

Halvard Buhaug is affiliated with the Peace Research Institute in Norway. Their research primarily focuses on social sciences, with particular attention to sociology and political science. They have contributed notably to understanding complex intersections in environmental and political contexts.

Key topics covered in their work include:

  • Transboundary Water Resource Management
  • Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
  • Disaster Management and Resilience
  • Political Conflict and Governance
  • Health and Conflict Studies
  • Agricultural risk and resilience
  • Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology

The scientist has frequently published in several academic venues, including:

  • Nature Communications
  • Journal of Peace Research
  • World Development
  • Climate Risk Management
  • Harvard Dataverse

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by Buhaug are works such as:

  • "Vicious Circles: Violence, Vulnerability, and Climate Change," 2021, Annual Review of Environment and Resources
  • "Security implications of climate change: A decade of scientific progress," 2021, Journal of Peace Research
  • "Green economy, degradation narratives, and land-use conflicts in Tanzania," 2020, World Development
  • "GDIS, a global dataset of geocoded disaster locations," 2021, Scientific Data
  • "Directions for Research on Climate and Conflict," 2020, Earth's Future

Buhaug has collaborated extensively with several co-authors over their career. Frequent collaborators include Nina von Uexkull, Jonas Vestby, Sebastian Schutte, Jannis Hoch, and Sophie de Bruin.

Best Publications

  • Inequality, Grievances, and Civil War

    Lars-Erik Cederman;Kristian Skrede Gleditsch;Halvard Buhaug

  • The Geography of Civil War

    Halvard Buhaug;Scott Gates

  • Local determinants of African civil wars, 1970–2001

    Halvard Buhaug;Jan Ketil Rød

  • Contagion or Confusion? Why Conflicts Cluster in Space

    Halvard Buhaug;Kristian Skrede Gleditsch

  • Geography, Rebel Capability, and the Duration of Civil Conflict

    Halvard Buhaug;Scott Gates;Päivi Lujala

  • Climate not to blame for African civil wars

    Halvard Buhaug

  • An urbanization bomb? Population growth and social disorder in cities

    Halvard Buhaug;Halvard Buhaug;Henrik Urdal

  • Climate as a risk factor for armed conflict

    Katharine J. Mach;Caroline M. Kraan;W. Neil Adger;Halvard Buhaug;Halvard Buhaug

  • PRIO-GRID: A unified spatial data structure

    Andreas Forø Tollefsen;Håvard Strand;Halvard Buhaug

  • Adaptation Opportunities, Constraints, and Limits

    Richard J.T. Klein;Guy F. Midgley;Benjamin L. Preston;Mozaharul Alam

  • Relative Capability and Rebel Objective in Civil War

    Halvard Buhaug

  • Accounting for scale: Measuring geography in quantitative studies of civil war

    Halvard Buhaug;Halvard Buhaug;Päivi Lujala;Päivi Lujala

  • Civil conflict sensitivity to growing-season drought

    Nina von Uexkull;Nina von Uexkull;Mihai Croicu;Hanne Fjelde;Hanne Fjelde;Halvard Buhaug;Halvard Buhaug

  • Does climate change drive land-use conflicts in the Sahel?:

    Tor A Benjaminsen;Koffi Alinon;Halvard Buhaug;Jill Tove Buseth

  • Climate Wars?: Assessing the Claim That Drought Breeds Conflict

    Ole Magnus Theisen;Helge Holtermann;Halvard Buhaug

  • One effect to rule them all? A comment on climate and conflict

    H. Buhaug;H. Buhaug;J. Nordkvelle;T. Bernauer;T. Böhmelt

  • Disaggregating Ethno-Nationalist Civil Wars: A Dyadic Test of Exclusion Theory

    Halvard Buhaug;Lars-Erik Cederman;Jan Ketil Rød

  • Ethno-Nationalist Dyads and Civil War A GIS-Based Analysis

    Lars-Erik Cederman;Halvard Buhaug;Jan Ketil Rød

  • Is climate change a driver of armed conflict

    Ole Magnus Theisen;Ole Magnus Theisen;Nils Petter Gleditsch;Nils Petter Gleditsch;Halvard Buhaug;Halvard Buhaug

  • It’s the Local Economy, Stupid! Geographic Wealth Dispersion and Conflict Outbreak Location:

    Halvard Buhaug;Kristian Skrede Gleditsch;Helge Holtermann;Gudrun Østby

  • Dude, Where's My Conflict? LSG, Relative Strength, and the Location of Civil War

    Halvard Buhaug

  • Square Pegs in Round Holes: Inequalities, Grievances, and Civil War

    Halvard Buhaug;Lars-Erik Cederman;Kristian Skrede Gleditsch

Frequent Co-Authors

Tor A. Benjaminsen
Tor A. Benjaminsen Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Jürgen Scheffran
Jürgen Scheffran Universität Hamburg
Marshall Burke
Marshall Burke Stanford University
Richard S. J. Tol
Richard S. J. Tol University of Sussex
Katharine J. Mach
Katharine J. Mach University of Miami
Frans Berkhout
Frans Berkhout King's College London
Benjamin L. Preston
Benjamin L. Preston RAND Corporation
Richard J.T. Klein
Richard J.T. Klein Stockholm Environment Institute
Karl W. Butzer
Karl W. Butzer The University of Texas at Austin
Niko Wanders
Niko Wanders Utrecht University

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