Previous research on climate change and conflict has focused on how climate change affects conflict, however, the field has failed to reach a consensus on the relationship. With climate change being such a large concept, the focus has shifted towards the concept of climate change vulnerability. Despite attempts to connect climate change vulnerability to conflict, there is a lack of research examining the reversed relationship, that is how conflict affects climate change vulnerability. Motivated by this gap, the research question of this thesis is: How does prolonged armed conflict affect the country’s climate change vulnerability? My main claim is that prolonged conflict will negatively affect the country’s climate change vulnerability trough a decrease in investments and public spending. This thesis is tested trough a qualitative comparative case study on the countries Libya and Algeria. The findings are in line with the hypothesis showing that the case with prolonged conflict did experience a higher climate change vulnerability.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:uu-522006 |
| Date | January 2024 |
| Creators | Hammersland, Jenny |
| Publisher | Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskning |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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