The need for bottom-up assessments of climate risks and adaptation in climate-sensitive regions

D Conway, RJ Nicholls, S Brown, MGL Tebboth… - Nature Climate …, 2019 - nature.com
Studies of climate change at specific intervals of future warming have primarily been
addressed through top-down approaches using climate projections and modelled impacts …

Decision-making in agent-based models of migration: State of the art and challenges

A Klabunde, F Willekens - European Journal of Population, 2016 - Springer
We review agent-based models (ABM) of human migration with respect to their decision-
making rules. The most prominent behavioural theories used as decision rules are the …

[PDF][PDF] Human security

WN Adger, JM Pulhin, J Barnett, GD Dabelko… - 2014 - ore.exeter.ac.uk
Human security will be progressively threatened as the climate changes (robust evidence,
high agreement). Human insecurity almost never has single causes, but instead emerges …

Desertification

A Mirzabaev, J Wu, J Evans, F García-Oliva… - 2019 - philpapers.org
Abstract IPCC SPECIAL REPORT ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND LAND (SRCCL) Chapter 3:
Climate Change and Land: An IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land …

Why populations persist: mobility, place attachment and climate change

H Adams - Population and Environment, 2016 - Springer
Explanations of relationships between migration and environmental change now focus on
multiple interactions, risks in destination and immobility. This research applies behavioural …

Agent-based modeling of energy technology adoption: Empirical integration of social, behavioral, economic, and environmental factors

V Rai, SA Robinson - Environmental Modelling & Software, 2015 - Elsevier
Agent-based modeling (ABM) techniques for studying human-technical systems face two
important challenges. First, agent behavioral rules are often ad hoc, making it difficult to …

The uneven geography of research on “environmental migration”

E Piguet, R Kaenzig, J Guélat - Population and environment, 2018 - Springer
Climate change and environmental hazards affect the entire world, but their interactions with—
and consequences on—human migration are unevenly distributed geographically …

Rural areas

P Dasgupta, J Morton, D Dodman, B Karapinar, F Meza… - 2014 - gala.gre.ac.uk
Rural areas still account for almost half the world's population, and about 70% of the
developing world's poor people.{9.1. 1}. There is a lack of clear definition of what constitutes …

Climate and human migration: Past experiences, future challenges

RA McLeman - 2013 - books.google.com
Studies warn that global warming and sea level rise will create hundreds of millions of
environmental refugees. While climate change will undoubtedly affect future migration …

Thresholds in climate migration

R McLeman - Population and environment, 2018 - Springer
Migration in response to climatic hazards or changes in climatic conditions can unfold in a
variety of ways, ranging from barely observable, incremental changes in pre-existing …