Research priorities for climate mobility

One Earth, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 7(4), С. 589 - 607

Опубликована: Март 8, 2024

The escalating impacts of climate change on the movement and immobility people, coupled with false but influential narratives mobility, highlight an urgent need for nuanced synthetic research around mobility. Synthesis evidence gaps across Intergovernmental Panel Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report a to clarify understanding what conditions make human mobility effective adaptation option its outcomes, including simultaneous losses, damages, benefits. Priorities include integration development planning; involuntary vulnerability; gender; data cities; risk from responses maladaptation; public risk; transboundary, compound, cascading risks; nature-based approaches; planned retreat, relocation, heritage. Cutting these priorities, modalities better position as type process, praxis. Policies practices reflect diverse needs, experiences emphasizing capability, choice, freedom movement.

Язык: Английский

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Is climate migration successful adaptation or maladaptation? A holistic assessment of outcomes in Kenya

Climate Risk Management, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 44, С. 100614 - 100614

Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2024

Research is increasingly approaching migration as an adaptation to climate risk. Yet our understanding of the migration-adaptation nexus remains limited, most studies conceptualize either adaptive or maladaptive and focus on specific aspects vulnerability. To advance a comprehensive migration's successful effects, this study employs two-dimensional conceptualization outcomes, encompassing range vulnerability variables at migrant household levels migrants' well-being. This framework applied case drought-influenced from agro-pastoralist northern Kenya City Nairobi. Based semi-structured interviews with 40 long-term migrants, we identify quantitative qualitative migration-induced changes in examined variables. The results highlight complexity outcomes. Effects broad comprising vulnerability's exposure, sensitivity capacity components are mixed. Migrants' ability provide their families' basic needs has improved, although only half households could allocate remittances reconstruct drought-stricken livelihood sources Kenya. Moreover, profound change social-environmental settings induced by exposed migrants unfamiliar risks, such urban crime, but also new capacity, knowledge enabling development climate-insensitive livelihoods. However, partial success reducing came expense well-being, which diminished drastically. These findings stress need for fundamental migration-as-adaptation literature, including more thorough engagement temporalities scope effects adaptation, greater attention tradeoffs that integral shift analytical frameworks consider alongside ones. We argue these essential develop interventions maximize potential while minimizing its effects.

Язык: Английский

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Spatial assessment of current and future migration in response to climate risks in Ghana and Nigeria

Frontiers in Climate, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 7

Опубликована: Фев. 26, 2025

West Africa’s vulnerability to climate change is influenced by a complex interplay of socio-economic and environmental factors, exacerbated the region’s reliance on rain-fed agriculture. Climate variability, combined with rapid population growth, intensifies existing challenges. Migration has become key adaptive response these challenges, enabling communities diversify livelihoods enhance resilience. However, spatial patterns migration in risks are not fully understood. Thus, study evaluates applicability IPCC risk assessment framework map predict Ghana Nigeria, focus identifying areas potential out-migration. By integrating geospatial environmental, socio-economic, data, highlights that have higher likelihood for current baseline near future (2050). Future modeled using CMIP6 projections under RCP4.5 scenario, while providing insight into exposure. The results from compared actual migrant motivations, ground-level perspective drivers. In northern elevated hazard, vulnerability, exposure scores suggest due overall faced population. This pattern projected persist future. responses indicate factors often play secondary role, cited more frequently as findings highlight importance developing localized adaptation strategies address specific needs vulnerable areas. Additionally, management community resilience support sustainable pathways will be critical addressing climate-induced

Язык: Английский

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Intergenerational grounding of women’s environmental non-migration

Population and Environment, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 47(1)

Опубликована: Янв. 22, 2025

Abstract This study examines the impact of intergenerational learning and intellectual capital on women’s voluntary decisions to remain in place despite environmental risks. By investigating how women experience decision stay through knowledge transfer, we analyze adaptability communities facing climate-driven livelihood challenges intricate socio-ecological factors that tie individuals their homes. Through life-story interviews with 70 from 25 households five hazard-prone sites Bangladesh, reveals nuanced patterns traditional gender roles both support limit autonomy making mobility choices. Although vary across site scale, systemic issues such as arranged child marriage, financial instability, (traditional) home-bound duties, male authority over decisions, gendered expectations consistently emerged barriers (non-)migration, even when they aspired leave. Thus, this research offers insights into (non-)migration its intergenerationality, which is inevitable developing sustainable adaptation pathways.

Язык: Английский

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Unveiling the Interrelations Between Migration, Climate Change, and Energy Transitions in the Context of Socioeconomic Disparities

Energies, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 18(7), С. 1625 - 1625

Опубликована: Март 24, 2025

This study examines the critical interplay between migration, climate change, energy transitions, and socioeconomic disparities, highlighting their collective influence on regional resilience sustainable development. By analyzing existing literature, investigates how migration patterns are shaped by environmental stressors, challenges, economic inequalities, emphasizing dual role of as both a response to driver change. Additionally, it explores complex relationship systems flows, focusing impact access, sustainability efforts conditions, particularly in vulnerable regions. The review identifies key gaps especially regarding social implications these interconnected factors. It also assesses transitions can either mitigate or exacerbate disparities climate-induced migration. holistic perspective aims inform future policy research security, equity.

Язык: Английский

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Mapping socio-environmental vulnerability to assess rural migration in Ghana

Applied Geography, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 167, С. 103283 - 103283

Опубликована: Май 3, 2024

Rural communities in Ghana, dependent on agriculture and lacking resources infrastructure, are highly vulnerable to climate environmental change. Internal migration is often considered as a strategy mitigate local livelihood constraints. Understanding the challenges of rural requires knowledge conditions. As only few studies have mapped areas context Ghana at spatially explicit nationwide level, this study provides geodata-based examination how multiple, co-occurring socio-economic factors influencing migration. A multifactorial expert-based weighted overlay analysis was applied, integrating diverse data sources including climate, remote sensing, recent census from Ghana. Bivariate maps visualize where high impact coincides with population density. High levels factor observed northern regions coastal Relatively low found more central parts country. The results align current net rates, confirming applicability our method for assessing internal This enhances understanding dynamics emphasizes role spatial studies.

Язык: Английский

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Rural migrants in urban centers: Sources of vulnerability or agents of adaptive capacity?

Habitat International, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 152, С. 103173 - 103173

Опубликована: Авг. 31, 2024

Язык: Английский

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Migration as good, bad and necessary: examining impacts of migration on staying Himalayan communities affected by climate change

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 11(1)

Опубликована: Дек. 20, 2024

Язык: Английский

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Comment on egusphere-2024-50

Опубликована: Фев. 4, 2024

Abstract. Managed retreat, a key strategy in climate change adaptation for areas with high hazard exposure, raises concerns due to its disruptive nature, vulnerability issues and overall risk the new location. On-site resettlement or near-site retreat are seen as more appropriate effective compared relocation far from former place of living, however, these conclusions often refer only very limited set empirical case studies do not sufficiently consider different context conditions phases relocation. Against this background, paper examines factors contributing community resilience projects Metro-Manila. In urban agglomeration reside an estimated 500,000 informal households, than 100,000 occupying high-risk areas. light already realized anticipated effects, precarious living situation exposes families, socio-economically vulnerable, increased flooding. The response Philippine government vexing problem dwellers has been large-scale coasts, rivers, creeks state-owned sites at fringes. Whereas few could be In-City close original space. study employs sequential mixed-method approach, integrating quantitative household survey focus group discussions (FGDs) robust comparison types. Further, it reveals community-defined enabling managed strategy. Results indicate minor variations well-being between Off-City resettlement, challenging expected impact setting on resilience. Instead, essential prerequisites involve reduced secure tenure safety crime. Beyond conditions, social cohesion institutional support systems emerge significant influencers successful establishment well-functioning settlements. With findings, contributes expanding body literature offering comprehensive evaluation based extensive datasets providing entry points improvement

Язык: Английский

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Climate migration and well-being: a study on ex-pastoralists in northern Kenya

Population and Environment, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 46(3)

Опубликована: Июнь 19, 2024

Abstract As the impacts of climate change intensify globally, scholars and policymakers are increasingly interested in determining factors that lead to success or failure adaptation strategies. This paper investigates well-being outcomes ex-pastoralists northern Kenya who have migrated towns response severe droughts. Focusing on Marsabit Town, study employs a comparative design with primary survey data analyze resulting from migration as an strategy. We contrast two heterogeneous groups former pastoralists: “settled group” was already residing Town before ending their pastoral activities “migrant relocated at time abandoning pastoralism. Our analysis reveals significant differences between these groups, migrant group often experiencing deterioration levels. Key predictors poorer include loss all livestock, informal housing, transition into agricultural work, which results dependence casual labor. Additionally, many migrants continue experience poor subjective well-being—referring personal satisfaction quality life—years after livelihood transition. These insights offer nuanced understanding migration-as-adaptation among underscore need for customized support strategies most at-risk populations.

Язык: Английский

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