The missing link: How does climate affect human conflict and cooperation through water
Surface waters directly influence human society in many ways that could affect both conflict and cooperation, including resource availability, energy production, and infrastructure risk.
This project will use a water model to separate human modifications of water flows from the remaining background climate signal in water variations. In this way, we will be able to understand how naturalized climate-dependent water flows govern societal responses. We intend to first investigate this pathway for the world’s transboundary river basins, and then in finer detail study the effects over a suite of other political and physical entities. In the end, this project will pioneer a new research approach to estimate the societal effects of climate through water, eventually enabling a better-informed foundation for policy decisions on adaptation to climate change.
Project period
2019–2023
Funding
Contact person
Other SATORI participants
Elisie Kåresdotter, Stockholm University
More information on WaterCentre@KTH's website
The missing link: How does climate affect human conflict and cooperation through water