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

Migrant workers walk on the highway on their journey back home during a nationwide lockdown to fight the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus in Mumbai, India (2020)
Research briefs
New study finds ten cities alone across three continents, from Bogotá (Colombia) and Amman (Jordan) to Freetown (Sierra Leone) and Karachi (Pakistan) should prepare for significant climate migration in coming years.
C40 Cities Secretariat
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Next to some of the priciest real estate in the world, the Shinnecock Nation refuses to merely retreat from its vulnerable shoreline.
Vox Media Inc.
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Journalist Todd Miller talks about the role climate change plays in migration to the U.S.-Mexico border.
Yale Climate Connections
Abandoned flooded houses in Bentiu City South Sudan
Update
Enormous floods have once again engulfed much of South Sudan, as record water-levels in Lake Victoria flow downstream through the Nile. More than 700,000 people have been affected.
Conversation Media Group, the
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A new report shows how migration in the context of climate change is profoundly affecting the lives of children in Southeast Asia.
World Vision International
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Documents and publications
The purpose of this paper is to present a novel algorithm that significantly improves the efficiency and effectiveness of evacuation planning in areas affected by forest fires.
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Documents and publications
This article uses data from a hypothetical hurricane situation presented in a survey to examine the roles of different factors in influencing evacuation decisions.
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Documents and publications
This study analyzes the implications of disaster resettlement on “vulnerability–adaptation” categories in southern Shaanxi by measuring specific and general resilience.
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Planned relocation
Planned relocation
These resources analyse how well-planned relocations can help to increase resilience and reduce disaster risk.

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