Elisabeth Lio Rosvold left PRIO in 2019. The information on this page is kept for historical reasons.
Elisabeth Lio Rosvold
Senior Researcher
Email: eliros@prio.org
Twitter: @lisrosvold
Research Interests
- Climate-conflict connections
- The political economy of disasters
- Urban unrest
- Quantitative methods
News
Thursday, 18 Feb 2021
New Geocoded Disaster Data Released
An article presenting a new global dataset of geocoded disaster locations has just been published in the Nature journal Scientific Data. The dataset, containing spatial geometry of nearly 40,000 unique locations of natural hazard-related disasters worldwide between 1960 and 2018, are posted in NASA's Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center's (SEDAC) data repository in collaboration with the Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia University. These data allow users of the EM-DAT disater database for the first time to map and analyse disasters at subnational levels. The data collection was a central part of Elisabeth Lio Rosvold's now-concluded doctoral project and is a product of the CLIMSEC project.
Read the article (open access) here.
PhD Project
In my PhD project I look at how climatic disasters might
affect ongoing conflict, aiming to uncover
some of the mechanisms at play between disaster events and the dynamics of conflict.
Education
2015: MSc, Political Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim
2013: MA, International Political Economy, Kings College London
2012: BA, Political Economy, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim
Latest publications
All publications
Group organization, elections and urban political mobilization in the developing world
Journal Article in Democratization
GDIS, a global dataset of geocoded disaster locations
Journal Article in Scientific Data
Development Aid, Drought, and Coping Capacity
Journal Article in Journal of Development Studies
Development Aid, Drought and Coping Capacity
PRIO Policy Brief
Disaggregated determinants of aid: Development aid projects in the Philippines
Journal Article in Development Policy Review
Coping with Calamity: Natural Disasters, Armed Conflict and Development Aid
PhD Thesis
Latest news
New Geocoded Disaster Data Released
An article presenting a new global dataset of geocoded disaster locations has just been published in the Nature journal Scientific Data. The dataset, containing spatial geometry of nearly 40,000 unique locations of natural hazard-related disasters worldwide between 1960 and 2018, are posted in NASA's Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center's (SEDAC) data repository in collaboration with the Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia University. These data allow users of the EM-DAT disater database for the first time to map and analyse disasters at subnational levels. The data collection was a central part of Elisabeth Lio Rosvold's now-concluded doctoral project and is a product of the CLIMSEC project.
Read the article (open access) here.
Director Henrik Urdal Celebrates World Food Programme Nobel Win
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize to the World Food Programme. PRIO Director Henrik Urdal says the prize is extremely welcome, "also speaking to one of the great challenges of our time: the increasing number of refugees worldwide."
Successful Doctoral Defense by Elisabeth Lio Rosvold
We congratulate Elisabeth Lio Rosvold on the successful defense of her PhD thesis today, 08 November 2019! Dr Rosvold’s thesis entitled ‘Coping with Calamity: Natural Disasters, Armed Conflict and Development Aid’ was defended at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Department of Sociology and Political Science.
Best Student Paper Award to Elisabeth Lio Rosvold
Congratulations!
PRIO Spearheads New Climate-Conflict Project
The project will focus on the causal connection between adverse environmental change and discrete social upheavals, with examples including the ongoing civil war in Syria and the early Arab Spring uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt.
