Environmental change and human mobility in the digital age

Dados Bibliográficos

ID8945270
AutoresIngrid Boas (0000-0001-7842-5883, Wageningen University & Research, autor correspondente)
Ano2017
Volume85
Páginas153-156
Data de publicação2017-07-28
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoGeoforum (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0016-7185 • E-ISSN: 1872-9398
EditoraElsevier BV (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1016/j.geoforum.2017.07.022
OpenAlexW2740604698
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas12
Referências citadas31

This intervention argues for the need of research to examine how information and communication technologies (ICTs) shape human mobility in the context of environmental change. ICTs are becoming increasingly central in the daily lives of migrants and communities at risk of environmental events. There is a lack of research, however, exploring how access to and the use of ICTs influences practices and dynamics of human mobility in the face of environmental change. I will outline this research gap and highlight areas for further research. I will do so by bringing together literature from human geography and environmental studies on migration and social resilience, and from sociology on the influence of our mobile and network society. In conceptualizing the role that ICTs play, I argue that the use of ICTs shapes human mobility through its impact on social network activities and relations. In this manner, this intervention builds on a growing body of research conceptualizing social networks – and related dynamics of power, access, in/exclusion – as shaping migration trajectories and abilities to cope with environmental events

Biology · Climate change · Economic geography · Environmental change · Geography · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Disaster Management and Resilience · Ecology · Environmental Science · Urban Transport and Accessibility