Migration in the context of vulnerability and adaptation to climate change
Insights from analogues
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12929068 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert Mcleman (0000-0001-9593-1606, University of Ottawa, corresponding author), Lori M Hunter (0000-0002-3450-9791, University of Colorado Boulder) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 450-461 |
| Publication date | 2010-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1757-7780 • E-ISSN: 1757-7799 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/wcc.51 |
| PMID | 22022342 |
| PMCID | PMC3183747 |
| OpenAlex | W2095783636 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 121 |
| References cited | 68 |
Migration is one of the variety of ways by which human populations adapt to environmental changes. The study of migration in the context of anthropogenic climate change is often approached using the concept of vulnerability and its key functional elements: exposure, system sensitivity, and adaptive capacity. This article explores the interaction of climate change and vulnerability through review of case studies of dry-season migration in the West African Sahel, hurricane-related population displacements in the Caribbean basin, winter migration of 'snowbirds' to the US Sun-belt, and 1930s drought migration on the North American Great Plains. These examples are then used as analogues for identifying general causal, temporal, and spatial dimensions of climate migration, along with potential considerations for policy-making and future research needs
Adaptation (eye · Adaptive capacity · Biology · Climate change · Climatology · Context (archaeology · Economic geography · Environmental change · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Geography · Population · Sociology · Variety (cybernetics · Vulnerability (computing · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Computer Science · Disaster Management and Resilience · Environmental Science · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Ecology · Geology
Vulnerability and the Role of Education in Environmentally Induced Migration in Mali and Senegal
Bridging the gap
At Risk of Deprivation
Climate variability and international migration
Sea-level rise and human migration
Human trafficking and exploitation
Ageing and population shrinking
Adaptation opportunities and maladaptive outcomes in climate vulnerability hotspots of northern Ghana
Transformational adaptation
Understanding U.S. Internal Climate-related Migration
American Perceptions and Attitudes about Domestic Climate Migrants and Migration
Hurricane Strikes and Migration
Is Climate Change Migration an Adjustment to Extreme Weather Events? A Study on the Coastal Areas of Bangladesh
Weather variation and temporary labor migration
Environmental change and migration as adaptation in rural economies
The risks of invisibilization of populations and places in environment-migration research
“I can migrate, but why should I?”—voluntary non-migration despite creeping environmental risks
The links between climate change and migration
A systematic review of climate migration research
Climate-induced displacement and urban stress in fragile states
Major storms, rising tides, and wet feet
Assessing levels of migrant-friendliness in the context of vulnerability to climate variability, change and environmental hazard
Optimizing climate-induced migration
Where mitigation and migration meet
Drought and aridity influence internal migration worldwide
Understanding the climate, migration, social protection nexus from a youth mobility dimension
Can labour migration help households adapt to climate change? Evidence from four river basins in South Asia
Spatiotemporal changes of climatic disasters and population displacements in Africa
Planning climate destination cities
Introduction to the special section
Water/climate nexus environmental rural-urban migration and coping strategies
Integration as Adaptation
Climate change and environmental degradation and the drivers of migration in the context of shrinking cities
When Migration Encounters Adaptation in Africa
People on the Move in a Changing Climate
Climate Migration at the Height and End of the Great Mexican Emigration Era
Attracting skilled labour to the North
Anomalous climatic conditions during winter 2010–2011 and vulnerability of the traditional Inuit food system in Iqaluit, Nunavut
Climate variability perceptions, adaptation measures and barriers to adaptation among rural youth in Ghana
Spatial perspective on environmental migration
The Village, the Elephant, and the State
Variation by Geographic Scale in the Migration-Environment Association
Collecting and Analysing Data on Climate‐related Local Mobility
Rural Outmigration, Natural Capital, and Livelihoods in South Africa
Internal and International Mobility as Adaptation to Climatic Variability in Contemporary Mexico
Environmental Mobilities
Does climatic risk induce labour migration? Evidence from Semi‐Arid Tropics region of India
Climate change adaptation
Transformation and recognition
How is the frequency, location and severity of extreme events likely to change up to 2060
Climate-induced migration
Green attitudes and interregional migration intentions
Contextualizing human migration in different agro-ecological zones in ancient China
Re-thinking the present
Walking with farmers
Disruption, not displacement
Settlement abandonment in the context of global environmental change
Measuring the environmental dimensions of human migration
The influence of climate variability on internal migration flows in South Africa
Toward a climate mobilities research agenda
Resettlement and climate change vulnerability
Learning from the Ancient Maya
Environmental Dimensions of Migration
Settlements and mobility
Pathways of adaptation to external stressors in coastal natural-resource-dependent communities
Who are the climate migrants and where do they go? Evidence from rural India
Opportunities and Challenges for Investigating the Environment-Migration Nexus
Recovery migration to the City of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina
Disaster vulnerability, displacement, and infectious disease
Environmental hazard and migration intentions in a coastal area in Ghana
Using geotagged tweets to track population movements to and from Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria
(Un)natural disaster
Sea-level rise and sub-county population projections in coastal Georgia
Household migration as a livelihood adaptation in response to a natural disaster
Recovery Migration After Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
Environmental change and human mobility
Trust Me, Stay
Staying’ as climate change adaptation strategy
Labor Migration and Climate Change Adaptation
To understand climate change adaptation, we must characterize climate variability
Agro-ecological drivers of rural out-migration to the Maya Biosphere Reserve, Guatemala
Income-based inequality in post-disaster migration is lower in high resilience areas
Should the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change recognize climate migrants
Entrepreneurial Migrants
Using a Social Justice and Health Framework to Assess European Climate Change Adaptation Strategies
Livelihood diversification as key to long-term non-migration
Rusem
Flocking to fire
Climate change and the public health imperative for supporting migration as adaptation
Turning up the heat
Back home or not
The role of international organizations in equitable and just planned relocation
Vulnerable City, recipient city, or climate destination? Towards a typology of domestic climate migration impacts in US cities
Taking gender seriously in climate change adaptation and sustainability science research
Learning From Natural Experiments to Accelerate Demographic Research on Climate‐Related Threats to Human Populations
Using Cultural Heritage in Climate Adaptation
The ethics of climate‐induced community displacement and resettlement
Soil and its influence on rural drought migration
Social vulnerability and population loss in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria
In-migration, customary land tenure, and complexity
Climate change and food security
Modelling inter-provincial migration in Burkina Faso, West Africa
Exploring the link between climate change and migration
The costs and risks of coping with drought
Environmental Concerns and International Migration
Tracking the Snowbirds
Fulani on the Move
A Framework for Assessing the Vulnerability of Communities in the Canadian Arctic to Risks Associated with Climate Change
Greening the security council
Snowbirds, Sunbirds, and Stayers
Farmer adaptation, change and ‘crisis’ in the Sahel
Climatic perspectives on Sahelian desiccation
Security and climate change
Global environmental change and migration
Adaptation, adaptive capacity and vulnerability
Climate change, migration and adaptation in Funafuti, Tuvalu
Climate change and global water resources
The rising tide
Crisis or adaptation? Migration and climate change in a context of high mobility
Climate change and involuntary migration
Hurricane Mitch and the Livelihoods of the Rural Poor in Honduras
GIS-based modeling of drought and historical population change on the Canadian Prairies
Climate Change and Security
Impacts of population change on vulnerability and the capacity to adapt to climate change and variability
Katrina in historical context
Two Population-Environment Regimes in the Great Plains of the United States, 1930–1990
Race, socioeconomic status, and return migration to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina
Migration and Environmental Hazards
Higher ground
Does Drought Increase Migration? A Study of Migration from Rural Mali during the 1983–1985 Drought
Does Drought Increase Migration? A Study of Migration from Rural Mali during the 1983-1985 Drought
Counting snowbirds
An American Exodus
A theory of migration
American Exodus
Human Choice and Climate Change
Church-based social capital, networks and geographical scale
Security Implications of a Worst-case Scenario of Climate Change in the South-west Pacific
What's Driving Mexico-U.S. Migration? A Theoretical, Empirical, and Policy Analysis
Race, class, and Hurricane Katrina
The Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement
Climate change, environmental degradation and armed conflict
A recurring anarchy? The emergence of climate change as a threat to international peace and security
Understanding adaptation
Climate change, human security and violent conflict
Vulnerability
The security of Africans beyond borders
Climate change as the 'new' security threat
Eaters of the Dry Season
American Exodus
Social Theory for a Changing Society
Eaters of the Dry Season
| Unique citing works | 121 |
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| Citations per year | 8,07 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2026 (16) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 119 |