Migration and sustainable development

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 121(3)

Опубликована: Янв. 8, 2024

To understand the implications of migration for sustainable development requires a comprehensive consideration range population movements and their feedback across space time. This Perspective reviews emerging science at interface studies, demography, sustainability, focusing on consequences flows nature-society interactions including societal outcomes such as inequality; environmental causes involuntary displacement; processes cultural convergence in sustainability practices dynamic new populations. We advance framework that demonstrates how result identifiable resources, burdens well-being, innovation, adaptation, challenges governance. elaborate research frontiers science, explicitly integrating full spectrum regular decisions dominated by economic motives through to displacement due social or stresses. Migration can potentially contribute transitions when it enhances well-being while not exacerbating structural inequalities compound uneven resources.

Язык: Английский

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Climate change-immobility nexus: perspectives of voluntary immobile populations from three coastal communities in Ghana

Climatic Change, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 178(2)

Опубликована: Янв. 17, 2025

Язык: Английский

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The limits of migration as adaptation. A conceptual approach towards the role of immobility, disconnectedness and simultaneous exposure in translocal livelihoods systems

Climate and Development, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 16(2), С. 87 - 96

Опубликована: Март 1, 2023

Migration can strengthen adaptation to climate change. The potential of migration-as-adaptation builds on a world intensifying global mobility and connectedness the increasing possibility geographically spreading risks. But what if is impeded connectivity disrupted? And happens distant places face risks simultaneously due systemic character or multiplicity crises? This paper points fundamental gaps in research migration-as-adaptation, which largely neglects questions limits. It argues that an understanding limits needs address (1) migration as inherent feature social systems under stress, (2) unequal contested nature goals, (3) immobility, disconnectedness simultaneous exposure core mechanisms limit adaptive migration. proposes novel translocal-mobilities perspective multi-scalar, multi-local, relational intersectional dynamics migration-as-adaptation. formulates for adaptation. A comprehensive will help scientific community build more realistic scenarios change provide entry policies avoid reaching mitigate negative consequences.

Язык: Английский

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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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Migration: International

The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown, С. 1 - 6

Опубликована: Фев. 19, 2025

Abstract International migration is the cross‐border movement of people from their country origin to another residence. People may be pulled new locations by labor and educational opportunities, pushed out countries conflict, natural disasters, or changing laws, experience some combination both. Migrants can distinguished nature departure arrival, amount time they spend outside origin, how migrate, whether arrival recognized reception. Global inconsistencies in migrants are defined make it difficult compare statistics, though general trends observed. Sociological research on addresses topics such as immigrant adaptation acculturation, factors that influence people's decisions maintenance transnational connections between effect both receiving sending societies.

Язык: Английский

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Prioritizing involuntary immobility in climate policy and disaster planning

Nature Communications, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 16(1)

Опубликована: Март 16, 2025

Abstract Globally, populations are increasingly located in areas at high risk of climate change impacts. Some lack the agency to move out harm’s way, leading involuntary immobility. The risks these face insufficiently addressed policy and disaster planning. While planning should be data-informed, appropriate data not limit governments institutions from taking action reduce Incorporating immobility within broader sustainable development goals safe, orderly, regular migration may substantially

Язык: Английский

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Anti-displacement mobilities and re-emplacements: alternative climate mobilities in Funafala

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Год журнала: 2022, Номер 48(14), С. 3380 - 3396

Опубликована: Май 24, 2022

If there is a dominant global imaginary of climate change in low-lying islands, it displacement risk. This paper uses mobilities perspective to consider anticipated as contested concept, reporting on emerging anti-displacement and re-emplacements rural, islet Tuvalu named Funafala. Anti-displacement are defined processes which ideas, people and/or matter become mobile order counter materially or symbolically, while the new together constitute remaking place through mobilities. These hitherto relatively unexplored place-making practices pragmatic political acts that resist displacement, reclaiming redefining territory has been categorised highly exposed impacts potentially unliveable. Grassroots re-emplacement interpreted internal population mobility Funafala, where Indigenous culture being revitalised by re-emplacing homes livelihoods remote, rural area. Mobilities way repossess revitalise place, reclaim meaning habitability face reject regimes reaffirm rights identities.

Язык: Английский

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Climate change and coastal megacities: Adapting through mobility

Global Environmental Change, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 80, С. 102666 - 102666

Опубликована: Март 27, 2023

Climate change poses threats to individuals, communities, and cities globally. Global conversations scholarly debates have explored ways people adapt the impacts of climate including through migration relocation. This study uses Lagos, Nigeria as a case examine relationship between flooding events, intentions preferred adaptation, destination choices for affected residents. The draws on mixed-methods approach which involved survey 352 residents semi-structured interviews with 21 We use capability analyze mobility decisions following major or repetitive flood events. found that majority are willing migrate but ability do so is constrained by economic, social, political factors leading involuntary immobility. Furthermore, intra-city relocation other states in internationally. These findings challenge popular South-North narratives. Indeed, some welcome government-supported plans others remain skeptical due lack trust. Community-based may therefore be Lagosians. Overall, this contributes nuanced understanding response climate-induced one world's largest coastal cities.

Язык: Английский

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Ten new insights in climate science 2023

Global Sustainability, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 7

Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2023

Abstract Non-technical summary We identify a set of essential recent advances in climate change research with high policy relevance, across natural and social sciences: (1) looming inevitability implications overshooting the 1.5°C warming limit, (2) urgent need for rapid managed fossil fuel phase-out, (3) challenges scaling carbon dioxide removal, (4) uncertainties regarding future contribution sinks, (5) intertwinedness crises biodiversity loss change, (6) compound events, (7) mountain glacier loss, (8) human immobility face risks, (9) adaptation justice, (10) just transitions food systems. Technical The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Assessment Reports provides scientific foundation international negotiations constitutes an unmatched resource researchers. However, assessment cycles take multiple years. As to cross- interdisciplinary understanding diverse communities, we have streamlined annual process synthesize significant advances. collected input from experts various fields using online questionnaire prioritized 10 key insights relevance. This year, focus on: overshoot urgency scale-up joint governance accelerated amidst present succinct account these insights, reflect their implications, offer integrated policy-relevant messages. science synthesis communication effort is also basis report contributing elevate every year time United Nations Conference. Social media highlight – more than 200 experts.

Язык: Английский

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Syrian farmers in the midst of drought and conflict: the causes, patterns, and aftermath of land abandonment and migration

Climate and Development, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 16(5), С. 349 - 362

Опубликована: Июль 1, 2023

The prevailing narrative on the Syrian Civil War attributes it to climate-induced migration resulting from a severe drought, which serves as central link connecting climate change with 2011 protests. However, limited research has involved interviews Syrians, most studies focusing drought's meteorological aspects and estimated migrant numbers. Our interdisciplinary study we conduct surveys 82 former farmers in Turkey, carry out 16 in-depth interviews, analyse satellite images explore land use activities. objective is answer three questions: (1) How can distinguish between 'forced displacement' 'migration an adaptive response' during 2007–2009 drought Syria subsequent civil war? (2) do abandonment, interact since 2006? (3) enhance understanding of 'trapped' individuals, considering mobility restrictions host countries rather than solely immobility country origin? findings are threefold: firstly, employed measures against before war; secondly, abandonment was less extensive portrayed literature linking climate, migration, conflict; finally, emphasize that refugees may feel trapped even after leaving their homes.

Язык: Английский

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