A ground-breaking study on how natural disasters can escalate or defuse wars, insurgencies, and other strife.Armed conflict and natural disasters have plagued the twenty-first century. Not since the end of World War II has the number of armed conflicts been higher. At the same time, natural disasters have increased in frequency and intensity over the past two decades, their impacts worsened by climate change, urbanization, and persistent social and economic inequal...

A comprehensive and accessible guide to learning and successfully applying QCASocial phenomena can rarely be attributed to single causes—instead, they typically stem from a myriad of interwoven factors that are often difficult to untangle. Drawing on set theory and the language of necessary and sufficient conditions, qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) is ideally suited to capturing this causal complexity. A case-based research method, QCA regards cases as combinations of condit...

EPUB and EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.The globalized era is characterized by a high degree of interconnectedness across borders and continents and this includes human migration. Migration flows have led to new governance challenges and, at times, populist political backlashes. A key driver of migration is environmental conflict and this is only likely to increase with the effects of climate change.Bringing together world-leading researchers from acro...

Dieses Buch zeigt den idealtypischen Prozess der Erstellung einer wissenschaftlichen Arbeit auf. Basierend auf ihrer langjährigen Erfahrung in der Betreuung von wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten verfolgen die Autoren einen sehr pragmatischen Ansatz mit jeweils direkt umsetzbaren Übungen aus dem wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Bereich. Im Ergebnis findet der Leser hier kurz, prägnant und zielführend die Essenz des wissenschaftlichen Arbeitens.In der 2. Auflage wurden weitere Übungen zu alle...