Climate change and weather extremes in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East

G Zittis, M Almazroui, P Alpert, P Ciais… - Reviews of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Observation‐based and modeling studies have identified the Eastern Mediterranean and
Middle East (EMME) region as a prominent climate change hotspot. While several initiatives …

[HTML][HTML] Human health and ocean pollution

PJ Landrigan, JJ Stegeman, LE Fleming… - Annals of global …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: Pollution–unwanted waste released to air, water, and land by human activity–is
the largest environmental cause of disease in the world today. It is responsible for an …

A theory of migration: the aspirations-capabilities framework

H De Haas - Comparative migration studies, 2021 - Springer
This paper elaborates an aspirations–capabilities framework to advance our understanding
of human mobility as an intrinsic part of broader processes of social change. In order to …

A meta-analysis of country-level studies on environmental change and migration

R Hoffmann, A Dimitrova, R Muttarak… - Nature Climate …, 2020 - nature.com
The impact of climate change on migration has gained both academic and public interest in
recent years. Here we employ a meta-analysis approach to synthesize the evidence from 30 …

[HTML][HTML] Climate, conflict and forced migration

GJ Abel, M Brottrager, JC Cuaresma… - Global environmental …, 2019 - Elsevier
Despite the lack of robust empirical evidence, a growing number of media reports attempt to
link climate change to the ongoing violent conflicts in Syria and other parts of the world, as …

The impact of climate change on migration: a synthesis of recent empirical insights

DJ Kaczan, J Orgill-Meyer - Climatic Change, 2020 - Springer
Concern about the human impact of climate change has led to predictions of how people
living in areas vulnerable to drought, flood, and temperature changes will respond to such …

Climate mobilities: Migration, im/mobilities and mobility regimes in a changing climate

I Boas, H Wiegel, C Farbotko, J Warner… - Journal of Ethnic and …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The discussion on the relation between human mobility and climate change has moved
beyond linear and exceptional terms. Building on these debates, this article, and the Special …

The dark side of transformation: latent risks in contemporary sustainability discourse

J Blythe, J Silver, L Evans, D Armitage, NJ Bennett… - Antipode, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The notion of transformation is gaining traction in contemporary sustainability debates. New
ways of theorising and supporting transformations are emerging and, so the argument goes …

Sea-level rise and human migration

ME Hauer, E Fussell, V Mueller, M Burkett… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2020 - nature.com
Anthropogenic sea-level rise (SLR) is predicted to impact, and, in many cases, displace, a
large proportion of the population via inundation and heightened SLR-related hazards. With …

Human migration in the era of climate change

C Cattaneo, M Beine, CJ Fröhlich… - Review of …, 2019 - journals.uchicago.edu
Migration is one response to climatic stress and shocks. In this article we review the recent
literature across various disciplines on the effects of climate change on migration. We …