by Alex Randall | Mar 10, 2017 | AR-pubs, Asia Pacific, Blogs, Briefings / Reports, Climate Migration, Drought and water stress, Feature front page, Flooding, frontpage
Climate change driving migration into China’s vulnerable cities Alex Randall Alex is programme manager of the Climate and Migration Coalition Natural disasters are displacing record numbers of urban Chinese, but millions are migrating into the same cities to escape...
by Alex Randall | Mar 9, 2017 | Asia Pacific, Blogs, Briefings / Reports, Climate Displacement, Climate Migration, Feature front page, Flooding, frontpage, Hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones, Sea level rise
Using mobile network data to understand climate change and migration বাংলা / Bengali David Wrathall & Xin Lu David Wrathall investigates climate extremes and human migration with Flowminder and United Nations University. Xin Lu is co-founder and chief analyst at...
by Alex Randall | Feb 8, 2017 | AR-pubs, Blogs, Briefings / Reports, Climate Conflict, Conflict, Drought and water stress, Feature front page, frontpage
Unpacking climate, migration and armed conflict Kate Burrows Kate Burrows is a PhD candidate at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Her research focuses on the public health impact of climate change and environmentally driven migration. Climate...
by Alex Randall | Feb 2, 2017 | Blogs, Climate Displacement, Climate Migration, frontpage, Horn of Africa
Raphael J. Nawrotzki Media reports claim that climate change will cause massive international migration over the 21st century. This possibility sparks fears of waves of ‘climate refugees’, fleeing poor developing countries and flooding into industrialized...
by Alex Randall | Dec 12, 2016 | AR-pubs, Blogs, Climate Displacement, Climate Migration, frontpage, law and rights
Phillip Warren The notion that climate change will cause extensive and largely unprecedented human migration likely comes as no surprise to readers of this blog. Rising seas, changing weather patterns, and increasing frequency and intensity of severe weather events...
by Alex Randall | Nov 23, 2016 | Climate Change, Climate Displacement, Climate Migration, frontpage
Clark Gray Climate change is likely to affect human migration, but this will occur via trapping potential migrants as well as displacing them. Sea level rise, climate-related disasters and heatwaves will clearly compel some people to move as climate change unfolds,...