Migration
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- Environmental drivers of human mobility
- ( The German Marshall Fund of the United States , 2010)
- Environmental change is one of a larger set of factors that affect human migration and displacement worldwide. Climate change and variability will particularly affect migration in and from highly vuln...
- Migration: boosting human development?
- ( United Nations Development Programme , 2009)
- This report explores how better policies towards human mobility can enhance human development. It lays out the case for governments to reduce restrictions on movement within and across their borders, ...
- Does climate change influence migration and displacement?
- ( K. Warner;C. Ehrhart;A. deSherbinin / CARE International , 2009)
- The impacts of climate change are already causing migration and displacement. Although the exact number of people that will be on the move by mid-century is uncertain, the scope and scale could vastly...
- Migration, climate change and environment
- ( International Organization for Migration , 2009)
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Environmental factors have long had an impact on global migration flows. Although there is limited reliable data on the subject, the scale of such flows, both internal and cross-border, is expected...
- Climate change and migration
- ( V.O. Kolmannskog / Norwegian Refugee Council , 2008)
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With the certainty of global warming, the term ‘climate refugees’ is gaining popularity in public discourse. The term climate refugees implies a mono-causality that one rarely finds in ...
- Planning and managing the impacts of climate change on human migration
- ( M. Couldrey (ed);M. Herson (ed) / Forced Migration Review , 2008)
- In response to growing climate change pressures on landscapes and livelihoods, people are moving and adapting. Evidence points towards climate and environmentally induced migration becoming ...
- The impact of demographic and climate change on migration patterns in developing countries
- ( R. Black;D. Kniveton;R. Skeldon / Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex , 2008)
- This working paper seeks to explore the potential impact of future demographic and climate change on migration patterns in developing countries, in order to identify policy implications for internatio...
- Examining the internal migration crisis caused by climate change
- ( Christian Aid , 2007)
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The number of IDPs is expected to rise dramatically in the coming decades. And those already displaced look likely to be joined by at least equal numbers of people forced from their homes because o...
- To what extent does climate change influence migration flows?
- ( D. Kniveton;K. Schmidt-Verkerk;C. Smith / International Organization for Migration , 2008)
- This paper is concerned with the question of trying to further the understanding of how different types of shocks and stresses caused by climate change influence different types of migration. ...
- Assessing the relationships between migration and the environment
- ( International Organization for Migration , 2008)
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Environmental degradation, climate change and migration are not new to the global community. However, managing these phenomena has become both more challenging and more critical to ensuring human s...
