Toledo, Pedro Rodríguez, 1604. ; Citation confidence: An exemplar has been referenced in a major analytical bibliography, or inspected book in hand, by a member of the Iberian Books project team or a collaborating institution. ; Citation/reference: IB: 50070
How do changes in climatic conditions and disaster patterns affect the persistence of civil unrest across countries over time? Existing studies postulate that changing climate conditions will exacerbate various social conflicts through their impacts on degraded environmental and economic conditions, which is further conditional on political institutions. Nevertheless, there are two major pitfalls in the existing studies. First, vulnerability as a major underlying mechanism has been used as an umbrella term or been presumed. Using vulnerability as an umbrella term has a detrimental effect on climate-conflict theory-building because it prevents scholars from deriving testable empirical implications for relevant concepts. Second, previous research has pinpointed the importance of political institutions in moderating impacts of climate on conflict, but the literature says little about what aspects of political institutions might aggravate or alleviate vulnerability to climate in ways that are simmering or amplifying civil strife. Using the structural causal approach and machine learning methods, this dissertation improves the identification of the mediation effect of vulnerability and the moderation effect of political institutions on the climate-conflict relationship. The important mechanisms and implications revealed by this study are twofold. First, this dissertation finds that the impacts of extreme climatic events are more important in shaping local vulnerability than that of annual weather variations, and that adaptive capacity is more important than economic sensitivity in mitigating local vulnerability. Annual weather variations (i.e., the slow-moving mechanics) have a significant impact on cumulative conflict hazards, whereas extreme climatic events (i.e., the fast-moving drivers) fuel onset of a new conflict. In the presence of socio-psychological vulnerabilities, an increase in annual weather variations can boil new conflicts. Second, the state capacity is more important than democracy in exacerbating a country's vulnerability to climate, and the degree of executive bribery especially plays a crucial role in moderating the impacts of vulnerability to climate on civil conflict. However, of different aspects of democracy, freedom of academic and cultural expression has the most important moderating effect on conflict. What is striking is the role of socio-psychological vulnerability in transmitting the impacts of extreme climate and weather variations on civil conflict. Mainstream conflict theory has shown that institutional and economic conditions are the most important factors determining conflicts even though socio-psychological factors are meaningful contexts. However, this present study shows that socio-psychological vulnerability is more important than institutional and economic conditions in shaping civil conflict.
Madrid, por Juan Flamenco y en la Imprenta Real a costa de Estéban Bogia, 1604. ; Language note: Translated version. ; Citation confidence: An exemplar has been referenced in a major analytical bibliography, or inspected book in hand, by a member of the Iberian Books project team or a collaborating institution. ; Citation/reference: IB: 46903
Sign.: [cruz latina]-3[cruz latina]4, A-Z4, Aa-Zz4, Aaa-Ttt4. -- La h. Ttt4v en bl. -- L. red. y curs. -- Reclamos ; Marca tip. xil. de Somasco en port. y de Giorgio Angelieri en el friso de la h. 1. -- Inic. grab. xil. ; [12], 260 h. ; 4o. ; Colofón
par Th. Hobbes, et traduicts en François par un de ses amis ; Bibliogr. Nachweis: Brunet, III. col. 240. - Aus d. Lat. ; Volltext // Exemplar mit der Signatur: Augsburg, Staats- und Stadtbibliothek -- Phil 1629
Imprint from colphon. ; T.p. engraving with arms of Philip III of Spain, to whom the work is dedicated. ; Cicognara, ; Mode of access: Internet. ; Binding, c. 1: limp vellum. Title written on spine: Architetura Militare del Barca. Written on top edges: Barca. Partially effaced armorial stamp on t.p. at lower right. Copy 2: limp vellum. Edges sprinkled red.
Madrid, s.n., 1633. ; Citation confidence: The work may be genuine, but there is a heightened possibility that this works could be a bibliographical ghost. An exemplar may survive in only a single copy, or there may be no known surviving copy. ; Citation/reference: IB: 50075