brendachepngetich/Climate-Conflict

This repository contains code used to investigate the influence of climate hazards on conflicts in Kenya #readme file #The following code can be found in this github repository **github.com **Influence of climate hazards on conflicts in kenya** -This repository contains code that is used to carry out spatial analysis for investigating influence of climate hazards on conflicts in kenya -R programming language is used -Interaction.R contains every line of code used -It is subdivided into sections based on the task being carried out -Comments have been indicated so as to give information on what is being done -Various R packages were used to carry out the tasks. -The following steps were followed to achieve the goal **Question one & two** ***Provides an analytical way to explore the interaction between climate hazards events and conflict*** **Link socio-economic vulnerabilities present in areas which are exposed to climatic and/or conflict hazards to illustrate the most vulnerable areas to climate induced insecurities and risks. Lastly, identify groups vulnerable to climate and security risks that should be targeted for interventions.** -Loading packages and reading rds R file -Access individual raster objects from raster stack object -Calculate total sum value of climate data -Check data normal distribution using hist function -Carry out linear regression for : -Climate hazards(independent variable) and conflict(dependent variable) -Socioeconomic vulnerabilities (independent variable) and conflicts(dependent variable) -linear regression for climate(independent variable) versus socioeconomic(dependent variable) -Summary outputs of models were visualized -Overlay analysis was carried out to determine the most vulnerable areas -Vulnerability map was plotted using plot function