To help address this gap, this paper focuses on how the American health system, already fraught with limitations, can prepare for the expected increase in mostly internal migrants in the face of climate change.
The risks of climate change are enormous, threatening the lives and livelihoods of millions to billions of people. The economic consequences of many of the complex risks associated with climate change cannot, however, currently be quantified. Here we arg
A gap remains in understanding flood-induced migration across sociodemographic groups. This study quantifies the flood-induced inflow/outflow selective migration by education, employment and age in the United States, and reveals how media sentiment and income effect aggravate selective migration. Yi Fan...
leaving people with little choice but to move, especially if they were already socially or economically vulnerable. This phenomenon is calledclimate migrationand it is becoming more common because of human-causedclimate change.
In the United States, NOAA's new climate normals reveal that our nation is about on pace with the global average of warming. What's more, the pattern of recent regional changes in our climate validate scientists' understanding of how man-madeclimate changeis unfolding. ...
Our analysis does not attempt to account for climate-change-related migration or resilience interventions, which could decrease exposure by either forcing people to move away from hot spots or mitigating impacts from severe heat stress.For those with livelihoods affected by severe chronic ...
"The refugee and migration challenge is one we can, and must, tackle together," Ban said. The majority of those refugees are fleeing the civil war in Syria, which broke out in March 2011. On climate change, the secretary-general said he was using "every opportunity to push for the early...
especially in the Southern United States, in the twentieth century. A variety of factors caused this land-use shift, including a rise in agricultural productivity that reduced demand foragricultural land, the emergence of sustainedforest plantationsfor supplying timber, and rural migration of population...
Superagency in the workplace: Empowering people to unlock AI’s full potentialHumanity has long adapted to various climatic conditions through migration, behavioral changes, and technological solutions. But today’s climate change is of a different nature: it is the direct resul...
Post-flood selective migration interacts with media sentiment and income effects A gap remains in understanding flood-induced migration across sociodemographic groups. This study quantifies the flood-induced inflow/outflow selective migration by education, employment and age in the United States, and rev...