Human mobility

Reducing, preparing for and responding to disaster displacement. Integrating disaster displacement and other related forms of human mobility into regional, national, sub-national and local DRR strategies.

Latest Human mobility additions in the Knowledge Base

California wildfires, July 2021
Update
The impacts of climate change are escalating, compounded by urban expansion into fire-prone areas. Eight cutting-edge technologies have the potential to revolutionize wildfire risk reduction strategies.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
Surreal artistic image of a smiling high school student sitting a mountain of books thinking.
Update
Climate-induced disasters are forcing people to migrate out of mountainous areas, and in the process their languages and cultures are being profoundly affected
Dialogue Earth
Cover: Leave no mountain behind
Documents and publications
How is climate change effecting long-term migration in mountain areas and its drivers as well as its impacts on communities and wider society?
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Documents and publications
This article sought to examine the impact of climate change within the context of internal displacement in Africa and to preview and describe the trends of internally displaced people in Africa.
Aerial view of a massive Rocinha favela in Sao Conrado, Rio de Janeiro/Brazil
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Over the past two decades at least eight million Brazilians have fled or migrated due to storms, floods, forest fires, drought, and sea-level rise. In 2023 alone, around 745,000 people were displaced by extreme climate events.
Conversation Media Group, the
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Documents and publications
This study aims to investigate the impact of the pandemic on migrant women living in Milan (North-West Italy), by leveraging on the accounts of a pool of key informants (KIs).
Aerial View of homes under water in Australia's flooding disaster. Also features paddlers surveying damage.
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As climate-related disasters intensify, more people will be find their homes unlivable or uninsurable. Australia needs to start planning now, to relocate our most at-risk communities before it's too late. The long-term benefits are incalculable.
Conversation Media Group, the
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Although Indigenous peoples only represent 5 per cent (1.8 million people) of Canada’s population, over 16 per cent of the people internally displaced in Canada in 2023 were Indigenous peoples living in reserves.
Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC)
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