Promoting migration as adaptation to climate change
Addressing Mobility Barriers
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3887149 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Emily Nabong (0000-0002-5317-2995, Audubon Nature Institute, corresponding author), A Opdyke (0000-0003-1507-6270, Twitter (United States)) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 128-132 |
| Publication date | 2023-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Development in Practice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0961-4524 • E-ISSN: 1364-9213 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09614524.2022.2043829 |
| OpenAlex | W4214940765 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
In the past decade, there has been growing pushback towards the idea of migration as a “failure to adapt” to climate change. Climate-related migration is increasingly viewed as an adaptation strategy rather than the consequence of failed in situ adaptation (McLeman and Smit 2006). As we move toward a more nuanced understanding of the interaction between climate change and migration, governments now need to work towards strategies to aid safe and supported mobility. In particular, we stress that the responsibility rests heavily with countries from the Global North who have contributed the most to carbon emissions, while the burden of adaptation has disproportionately fallen to low-emitting countries from the Global South. While we are gradually understanding the drivers that lead to migration, we know comparatively less about the factors that compel people to stay (Wiegel, Boas, and Warner 2019). Unpacking the puzzle of immobility factors is a vital but often neglected pathway to assisting climate-affected populations who are unable or unwilling to move. This viewpoint provides a commentary on top factors that keep climate-affected populations in place, detailing how they contribute to immobility as well as recommendations towards overcoming these barriers
Biology · Climate change · Climate change adaptation · Development economics · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental planning · Geography · Political science · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Congenital Anomalies and Fetal Surgery · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Psychology · Ecology
Putting trapped populations into place
Contextualising typologies of environmentally induced population movement
A discursive review of the textual use of ‘trapped’ in environmental migration studies
A mobilities perspective on migration in the context of environmental change
A Decision Framework for Environmentally Induced Migration
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |