Human mobility

This study shows that perceived false flood alarms can reduce evacuation behaviour, while positive emotional responses to false alarms may help maintain protective action during future warnings.

This study evaluates whether the spatial accessibility of these facilities aligns with the distribution of older residents in core and non-core areas of Pudong New Area, Shanghai Municipality.

The study shows new methodology to estimate human costs of internal displacement using a life-year approach. Developed for researchers and practitioners, it gives a framework to quantify impacts of displacement to inform policies and investment decisions.

The Island Innovation newsletter of 4 June 2026 referred to "the Falepili Mobility Visa, the world's first climate-linked migration pathway." The text of the 2023 Australia-Tuvalu Falepili Union treaty is clear that the visa offer is different.

Researchers developed a new approach integrating human mobility dynamics into flood emergency planning. Results show ~43% cities experience severe spatial mismatches between evacuation demand and shelter resources under a once-in-a-century flood scenario.

This region is no stranger to fire, analysis shows these wildfires are off the charts. A very hot summer primed many areas for fire. When they ignited, they spread ferociously. The area of land burned in France is 40% larger than the previous record year.

This policy brief presents a case study of Indigenous climate mobility governance, through which communities exercise authority to make decisions on how their land or other resources might or might not become available to support groups wanting to move

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.

This Power Presentation presents updates regarding the incorporation of displacement related issues into the Treaty for the Protection of Persons in the event of Disasters.

This policy brief examines the increasing challenge of disaster-related displacement and argues that the proposed Treaty on the Protection of Persons in the Event of Disasters (PPED Treaty) should explicitly address the protection of displaced people.

This summary report presents the key insights from the technical briefing and a summary of the presentations and exchange among participants.

This two-pages resource brief provides concrete recommendations and entry points to incorporate displacement into the Treaty on the Protection of Persons in the event of Disasters.

This guide introduces the ongoing process to develop a legally binding convention on the protection of persons in the event of disasters (PPED) and explains why feminist and gender-justice advocates need to be paying attention.

This operational guidance provides direction for designing and implementing people-centred, inclusive multi-hazard early warning systems that effectively reach and protect mobile populations and other groups affected by changing locations or circumstances

This report examines the interlinked dynamics of fragility, food insecurity, shocks, and migration in the Northern Central America (NCA) region, composed of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.

This brief examines key components of government-led planned relocation frameworks in Fiji, Bangladesh, and Peru, including their impacts on communities and lessons for policymakers developing and implementing similar plans.

This study proposes a Wildfire Evacuation Resource Index (WERI) quantifies census-tract accessibility to emergency shelters, hospitals, lodging, gas stations, and EV charging stations within a three-step floating catchment area framework.

This research presents a conceptual disaster risk and resilience framework for modelling natural hazard-induced human mobility, centring on household objective well-being as the key determinant of voluntary, involuntary, and planned movement outcomes.

Depopulation in the state’s coastal communities has been significant since Hurricane Katrina, an extremely powerful and destructive storm that hit the state in August 2005. It was responsible for 1833 deaths and approximately $108 billion in damage.

This publication explores how climate mobility programmes can move beyond gender-responsive approaches towards more gender-transformative change.

Millions of Afghans forced back across the border are returning to a country where conflict, climate and hardship make rebuilding fragile from the start.

Some have migrated from the Valparaíso region, but others have organised to remain in the face of advancing forest fires

With climate change likely to accelerate extreme weather in Australia, planned or managed retreat – moving people and infrastructure away from these areas – will grow only more important.

The researchers find that, while migration in Bhutan is primarily done for economic, professional and aspirational reasons, climate change is a “background stressor” that drives migration by making rural livelihoods increasingly precarious.

This issue brief examines how climate change is reshaping internal migration patterns in India, particularly among women and adolescent girls entering informal domestic work in urban centres.

The Global Report on Internal Displacement 2026, published by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), examines displacement trends across 146 countries and territories affected by conflict, violence and disasters.

This brief explores how emergency preparedness shapes climate-related displacement and migration. As climate hazards intensify, preparedness determines whether movement is chaotic or safe and planned.

Louisiana is losing its coast faster than anywhere else in the U.S. What happens next could become a blueprint — or a warning — for vulnerable communities around the globe.

Louisiana is in a unique position to build expertise and infrastructure that will be the foundation for coming generations. Transition planning offers economic opportunities, from land-building strategies to renewable energy and new housing development

Rising temperatures across the United States are often assumed to be a major force driving people to relocate. But new research from Florida Atlantic University shows a more nuanced reality: climate alone is not a primary driver of migration patterns.

This report and accompanying short risk profile are designed to help governments and their partners to reduce risk, strengthen resilience and minimise the impacts of disasters, including internal displacement.

This publication brings together voices from the ground and highlights why human mobility in the context of climate change is inherently gendered: social norms and unequal access to resources shape who participates in decision-making.

This factsheet presents the Daami’s Dignified Relocation project in Hargeisa, Somaliland, which supported the voluntary relocation of households living in a highly flood-prone displacement camp.

This factsheet presents migration data management in the Philippines, where digitalization and training of local authorities help streamline the collection, review, and analysis of migration data.

This factsheet presents how Kenyan cities and counties are integrating disaster displacement into disaster risk reduction planning. How can local authorities prepare for disaster displacement?

The article examines how gaps in tsunami early warning systems and urban evacuation planning—especially for non-seismic tsunamis—can significantly increase risk and fatalities despite existing disaster preparedness measures.

The Pacific Regional Framework on Climate Mobility (PRFCM) serves as a guide for Pacific Islands Forum (Forum) governments, communities, non-state actors and partners in ensuring rights-based and people-centred movement in the context of climate change.

Focusing on tsunami evacuation resilience under compound disaster conditions, this study simulates tsunami evacuation behavior in the Ukai and Kasugano districts of Suzu City, Ishikawa Prefecture, during the 2024 Noto Peninsula Earthquake.

Waikōloa Village has a higher risk of wildfire than Lahaina and conditions that would challenge residents' escape in case of emergency

This study proposes a methodological framework to analyze spatial and temporal patterns of Florida residents' evacuation to Georgia during Hurricane Milton, focusing on changes in Points-of-Interest (POIs) visitor share within Georgia census tracts.

This case study examines the role of time in lahar evacuations by quantifying population exposure and evacuation potential for non-eruptive lahar hazards associated with Mount Rainier, Washington.

Local solutions are needed to address migration and boost resilience, agreed researchers and policymakers at a conference in Ethiopia

Climate change, migration and health are tightly connected: climate impacts shape mobility, and both moving and being unable to move create physical and mental health risks.

The End-to-end mapping solution strengthens strengthens local capacity in Bali to map evacuation routes and improve volcanic disaster preparedness around Mount Agung.

This report outlines practical, evidence-based flood risk reduction strategies for two displacement settings in East Africa: Kule Refugee Camp in Ethiopia and Renk Transit Centre in South Sudan.

Research shows that delaying evacuation during wildfires increases risk, with driving conditions and social behavior making late evacuation particularly dangerous.

This report is designed to help governments and their partners to reduce risk, strengthen resilience and minimise the impacts of disasters, including internal displacement.