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Climate change expected to increase conflict risks over the next decades across sub-Saharan Africa
The Innovation Geoscience, Vol.3(3), 100139
2025
Abstract
While climate change is increasingly recognized as a driver of conflict risks, most research focuses on past correlations, hence limiting our ability to project future climate-related security risks. We use machine learning techniques to predict the spatiotemporal dynamics of conflict risks and estimate the human population that would be exposed to these risks in the 2030s, 2040s, and 2050s. Our results demonstrate that climate change is associated with increasing risks of conflict over the next decades and that the change of projected spatial and temporal distribution of conflict risk will be heterogeneous, depending on conflict types and climate scenarios. We estimate that 0.5-1.7 billion people may live at high-risk zones of conflict across sub-Saharan Africa by the 2050s, which is an increase of at least 391 million compared to today. Detecting such risks early provides sufficient time to plan ahead and implement mitigation strategies.
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- Title
- Climate change expected to increase conflict risks over the next decades across sub-Saharan Africa
- Authors/Creators
- Dong JiangJun ZhuoShuai ChenMengmeng HaoXiaolan XeTobias IdeJean-François Maystadt
- Publication Details
- The Innovation Geoscience, Vol.3(3), 100139
- Publisher
- Innovation Press
- Identifiers
- 991005803324607891
- Copyright
- © 2025 The Author(s)
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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