At the 2015 UBS Center Forum for Economic Dialogue in Zurich, Ted spoke on the topic of Conflict, Climate and Development in Africa. He spoke on his recent research with co-authors Solomon Hsiang and Marshall Burke on the links between extreme climate and violent conflict (which appeared in Science in 2013 here) and their article on the non-linear realtionship between temperature and economic productivity (Nature 2015 here). He discussed implications for public policy responses and climate change, and the prospects for future African economic development. (Ted starts speaking at minute 31:00.)
Talk
Conflict, Climate + Development in Africa
Zurich, Switzerland
November 16, 2015
TEDxBerkeley talk: Climate, Conflict, and African DevelopmentZellerbach Hall, UC BerkeleyFebruary 8, 2014
Annual Bank Conference on Africa (ABCA) 2015UC BerkeleyJune 8, 2015
Conflict, Climate, and African Development (Oxford)Oxford, UKMarch 18, 2013
Conflict, Climate, and African Development (Harvard)Cambridge, MA, USAApril 2, 2013
World Bank Development Economics Vice Presidency (DEC) LectureWashington, DC USASeptember 15, 2015
Climate, Conflict and DevelopmentColorado College, Colorado Springs, COMay 3, 2018
Climate, Conflict and Economic Development: The Next 50 YearsUniversity of Oslo, NorwayOctober 19, 2017
Life is a Lab Lecture: Climate and ConflictNorwegian School of Economics, Bergen, NorwayOctober 18, 2017
Thought Lounge Against PovertyUC BerkeleyJanuary 7, 2016
Africa’s Turn?
Quantifying the Influence of Climate on Human ConflictPublished PaperEnvironment and ClimatePolitical Economy and ConflictResearch Methodology2013
Economic Shocks and Civil Conflict: An Instrumental Variables ApproachPublished PaperAfrican DevelopmentEnvironment and ClimatePolitical Economy and Conflict2004
Climate and ConflictOtherEnvironment and ClimatePolitical Economy and ConflictResearch Methodology2015
Civil WarPublished PaperPolitical Economy and Conflict2010
Can War Foster Cooperation?Published PaperAfrican DevelopmentPolitical Economy and Conflict2016
Global non-linear effect of temperature on economic productionPublished PaperAfrican DevelopmentEnvironment and Climate2015
Analysis of statistical power reconciles drought-conflict results in AfricaWorking PaperAfrican DevelopmentEnvironment and ClimateResearch Methodology2016
Healing the Wounds: Learning from Sierra Leone’s Post-war Institutional ReformsBook ChapterAfrican DevelopmentPolitical Economy and Conflict2016
Trump pulling the US out of the Paris climate agreement could be disastrous for the economyBusiness Insider Australia