Record Details

The Effect of Natural Resources on Civil War Reconsidered

International Journal of Social Science Studies

View Archive Info
 
 
Field Value
 
Title The Effect of Natural Resources on Civil War Reconsidered
 
Creator Reuveny, Rafael
Barbieri, Katherine
 
Description This paper reconsiders the role of natural resources in civil war in light of the continuing debate over whether resource scarcity/abundance fuels conflict. We argue the role of resources in civil war is due to their life-preserving and income-generating attributes, not their scarcity or abundance per se; and the effect may differ across resources and depending upon whether we examine the onset versus the presence of civil war. We highlight the need to consider comprehensive sets of life-preserving and income-generating resources in tandem, as any given resource may affect others by way of belonging to the same economy and physical environment. The empirical investigation employs a large N statistical analysis of civil wars. The independent variables include broad sets of life-preserving resources, including key environmental conditions pertaining to hospitable climate, and income-generating resources. The results indicate that the role of resources in civil war vary by resource. The size of effect varies depending on whether we examine civil war onset or presence, but the sign of the effect essentially does not.
 
Publisher Redfame Publishing
 
Contributor —
 
Date 2016-03-29
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
—
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://redfame.com/journal/index.php/ijsss/article/view/1500
10.11114/ijsss.v4i5.1500
 
Source International Journal of Social Science Studies; Vol 4, No 5 (2016); 71-83
2324-8041
2324-8033
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://redfame.com/journal/index.php/ijsss/article/view/1500/1532