Climate migration amplifies demographic change and population aging.

ABSTRACT: The warnings of potential climate migration first appeared in the scientific literature in the late 1970s when increased recognition that disintegrating ice sheets could drive people to migrate from coastal cities. Since that time, scientists have modeled potential climate migration without integrating other population processes, potentially obscuring the demographic amplification of this migration. Climate migration could amplify demographic change-enhancing migration to destinations and suppressing migration to origins. Additionally, older populations are the least likely to migrate, and climate migration could accelerate population aging in origin areas. Here, we investigate climate migration under sea-level rise (SLR), a single climatic hazard, and examine both the potential demographi

SUBMITTER: Hauer ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10801880 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature