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Overview

Tobias Ide is affiliated with Murdoch University in Australia. Their primary field of study is Social Sciences, with a focus on several subfields including Sociology and Political Science, General Health Professions, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, General Energy, and General Economics, Econometrics and Finance.

The main research topics covered by Tobias Ide include:

  • Transboundary Water Resource Management
  • Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
  • Health and Conflict Studies
  • Political Conflict and Governance
  • Peacebuilding and International Security
  • Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact
  • Global Security and Public Health

The scientist has contributed research published in various venues with multiple publications in:

  • Environment and Security
  • World Development
  • Global Environmental Change
  • International Affairs
  • Journal of Peace Research

Tobias Ide's recent papers include:

  • Multi-method evidence for when and how climate-related disasters contribute to armed conflict risk, 2020, Global Environmental Change
  • The past and future(s) of environmental peacebuilding, 2021, International Affairs
  • The Future of Environmental Peace and Conflict Research, 2023, Environmental Politics
  • COVID-19 and armed conflict, 2020, World Development
  • Modelling armed conflict risk under climate change with machine learning and time-series data, 2022, Nature Communications

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Tobias Ide include:

  • Jürgen Scheffran
  • Dong Jiang
  • Xiaolan Xie
  • Quansheng Ge
  • F. Ding

In addition to journal articles, the scientist has authored books published by various academic presses. These include:

  • Catastrophes, Confrontations, and Constraints, published in 2023 by The MIT Press
  • Environmental Conflicts, Migration and Governance, published in 2020 by Policy Press
  • Environmental Conflicts, Migration and Governance, published in 2020 by Bristol University Press eBooks

Best Publications

  • Sampling bias in climate–conflict research

    Courtland Adams;Tobias Ide;Jon Barnett;Adrien Detges

  • Multi-method evidence for when and how climate-related disasters contribute to armed conflict risk

    Tobias Ide;Michael Brzoska;Jonathan F. Donges;Jonathan F. Donges;Carl-Friedrich Schleussner;Carl-Friedrich Schleussner

  • Why do conflicts over scarce renewable resources turn violent? A qualitative comparative analysis

    Tobias Ide

  • On exposure, vulnerability and violence: Spatial distribution of risk factors for climate change and violent conflict across Kenya and Uganda

    Tobias Ide;Janpeter Schilling;Jasmin Link;Jürgen Scheffran

  • The past and future(s) of environmental peacebuilding

    Tobias Ide;Carl Bruch;Alexander Carius;Ken Conca

  • Research methods for exploring the links between climate change and conflict

    Tobias Ide

  • On climate, conflict and cumulation: suggestions for integrative cumulation of knowledge in the research on climate change and violent conflict

    Tobias Ide;Jürgen Scheffran

  • Violent climate or climate of violence? Concepts and relations with focus on Kenya and Sudan

    Jürgen Scheffran;Tobias Ide;Janpeter Schilling

  • The dark side of environmental peacebuilding

    Tobias Ide

  • Conflict and cooperation in the water-security nexus: a global comparative analysis of river basins under climate change

    P Michael Link;Juergen Scheffran;Tobias Ide

  • COVID-19 and Armed Conflict

    Tobias Ide

  • Climate War in the Middle East? Drought, the Syrian Civil War and the State of Climate-Conflict Research

    Tobias Ide

  • The Impact of Environmental Cooperation on Peacemaking: Definitions, Mechanisms, and Empirical Evidence

    Tobias Ide

  • Pathways to water conflict during drought in the MENA region

    Tobias Ide;Miguel Rodriguez Lopez;Christiane Fröhlich;Jürgen Scheffran

  • Does environmental peacemaking between states work? Insights on cooperative environmental agreements and reconciliation in international rivalries:

    Tobias Ide

  • QCA in International Relations: A Review of Strengths, Pitfalls, and Empirical Applications

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  • First comes the river, then comes the conflict? A qualitative comparative analysis of flood-related political unrest:

    Tobias Ide;Anders Kristensen;Henrikas Bartusevičius

  • Resilience and environmental security: towards joint application in peacebuilding

    Janpeter Schilling;Sarah Louise Nash;Tobias Ide;Juergen Scheffran

  • Deciphering interwoven drivers of environment-related migration - A multisite case study from the Ethiopian highlands

    Juliane Groth;Tobias Ide;Patrick Sakdapolrak;Endeshaw Kassa

  • Space, discourse and environmental peacebuilding

    Tobias Ide

  • International Water Cooperation and Environmental Peacemaking

    Tobias Ide;Adrien Detges

  • Education and Environmental Peacebuilding: Insights from Three Projects in Israel and Palestine

    Tobias Ide;Amit Tubi

  • Socio-environmental cooperation and conflict? A discursive understanding and its application to the case of Israel and Palestine

    Tobias Ide;Christiane Fröhlich

  • Environmental peacebuilding from below: customary approaches in Timor-Leste

    Tobias Ide;Lisa R Palmer;Jon Barnett

Frequent Co-Authors

Jürgen Scheffran
Jürgen Scheffran Universität Hamburg
Itay Fischhendler
Itay Fischhendler Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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