The scientific debate about the Syrian civil war being linked to climate change that manifested through a prolonged drought took off in 2014. This annotated bibliography is an article-by-article summary of the peer reviewed literature published on the climate-conflict nexus in Syria since then. It currently includes 19 articles where drought after 2005 is discussed together with the Syrian uprising turning into a civil war in 2011. The bibliography lists the purpose, methods and data used, as well as the findings and conclusions of each article.
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This publication is part of the project Climate Stress Syria.
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