A Well-Founded Fear of Climate Extremes? Tracing the Footprint of Environmental Migrants
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EmailThe goal of the subject research is to explore if, where and when data layers align to identify a footprint of environmental migrants. The approved research prospectus very specifically aims to create the world’s first global historic database on env...
The goal of the subject research is to explore if, where and when data layers align to identify a footprint of environmental migrants. The approved research prospectus very specifically aims to create the world’s first global historic database on environmentally-driven migration –to capture the footprint of environmental migrants through space and time. After two events (an Environmental Demography Course and the UNU Summer Academy), the research agenda has expanded to include a wider coverage of environmental stressors and an exploratory modeling phase. The research agenda entails four phases: 1. Definition/drivers, 2. Database/mapping, 3. Confirmation/case studies and 4. Modeling.
Investigator(s)
Lead Investigator(s):
Lezlie Moriniere
Characteristics
Topics: Threshold, Time Lags, Feedbacks, Surprise
Attributes
Model: GIS, agent based,microsimulation
Temporal Scope: longitudinal, historic
Spatial Scope: global
Natural System: all ecosystems subject to degradation and/or natural hazards
Human System: inhabitants, loss of homes, migration
