Ted presented at the February 2014 TEDxBerkeley event at Zellerbach Hall. He discussed results from his paper 2013 Quantifying the Influence of Climate on Human Conflict, which he co-authored with Solomon Hsiang and Marshall Burke and appeared in Science.
Talk
TEDxBerkeley talk: Climate, Conflict, and African Development
Zellerbach Hall, UC Berkeley
February 8, 2014
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