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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

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Integrating climate change induced flood risk into future population projections

This publication demonstrated that observed declines in population are statistically associated with higher levels of historic flood exposure, which may be subsequently coupled with future population projections.
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About 3 million Americans are already "climate migrants," analysis finds. Here's where they left.

Migration is happening within the U.S. as extreme weather makes parts of the country virtually inhospitable, according to a new analysis.
CBS News, CBS Corporation
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Policy brief: Protection of persons displaced across borders in the context of disasters and the adverse effects of climate change

This policy brief focuses on good practices that demonstrate how States can implement their commitments in an era of climate change.
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Documents and publications

Exploring interactions between socioeconomic context and natural hazards on human population displacement

This publication shows explainable machine learning techniques can be employed to model and understand internal displacement flows and patterns from observational data alone.
Rohingya refugee women wait to collect relief aid at the palongkhali makeshift Camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on October 06, 2017
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Five things to consider on the climate-refugees nexus

As the international community gathers in the United Arab Emirates for COP28, the converging effects of the climate crisis, violent conflicts, and geopolitical upheaval are increasingly clear.
World Bank, the
Community carpenters construct new houses in Fiji
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Five ways communities are adapting to the climate crisis

From Cambodia to Peru, a suite of innovative projects are helping communities weather a range of climate-related perils. Here is a closer look at five of those efforts.
United Nations Environment Programme
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Climate change and displacement: the myths and the facts

Five myths busted about the climate crisis and displacement.
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
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Why ‘climate havens’ might be closer to home than you’d think

A refuge isn’t something nature hands us, but something we have to build ourselves.
Yale Climate Connections

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