Human mobility

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.