Natural Disasters

Associated Documents (6)

Main AuthorPublished YearTitle
Peregrine, Peter N.Network strategy and war
Harrington, Jesse R.Tightness-looseness across the 50 united states
Ember, Carol R.Violence in the ethnographic record: results of cross-cultural research on war and aggression
Ember, Carol R.Resource Unpredictability, mistrust, and war: a cross-cultural study
Ember, Carol R. Warfare, atrocities, and political participation: eastern Africa
Jackson, Joshua ConradA global analysis of cultural tightness in non-industrial societies

Associated Hypotheses (8)

Main AuthorHypothesis
Peregrine, Peter N.Network-oriented polities will be more common where there are conditions of unpredictable natural disasters (5).
Harrington, Jesse R.Tight states will exhibit a higher incidence of natural disasters, greater environmental vulnerability, fewer natural resources, greater incidence of disease and higher mortality rates, higher population density and greater degrees of external threat (7992).
Ember, Carol R.Non-pacified foragers will be less likely to have unpredictable natural disasters than non-pacified food-producers (10).
Ember, Carol R.Controlling for mistrust in a multiple regression analysis, natural disasters are positively associated with overall warfare (254)
Ember, Carol R.Controlling for natural disasters in a multiple regression analysis, mistrust is positively associated with overall warfare (254)
Ember, Carol R. There will be an inverse relationship between political participation and committing atrocities.
Ember, Carol R. Adding three additional variables-little formalized leadership, natural disasters, and state-level organization- to the eastern African comparison would lead to a replication of the Ember et al. (1992) findings.
Jackson, Joshua ConradNatural disasters will be positively associated with cultural tightness.

Associated OCMs

  1. gratification and control of hunger
  2. disasters