Anticipating sea-level rise and human migration: A review of empirical evidence and avenues for future research.

ABSTRACT: Sea-level rise (SLR) threatens millions of people living in coastal areas through permanent inundation and other SLR-related hazards. Migration is one way for people to adapt to these coastal changes, but presents an enormous policy challenge given the number of people affected. Knowledge about the relationship between SLR-related hazards and migration is therefore important to allow for anticipatory policymaking. In recent years, an increasing number of empirical studies have investigated, using survey or census data, how SLR-related hazards including flooding, salinization, and erosion together with non-environmental factors influence migration behavior. In this article, we provide a systematic literature review of this empirical work. Our review findings indicate that flooding is not

SUBMITTER: Duijndam SJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9286789 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan-Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature