Research priorities for climate mobility
- Author(s)
- Nicholas P. Simpson, Katharine J. Mach, Mark G. L. Tebboth, Elisabeth A. Gilmore, A. R. Siders, Petra Holden, Brilé Anderson, Singh Chandni, Salma Sabour, Lindsay C. Stringer, Harald Sterly, Portia Adade Williams, Andreas L.S. Meyer, Georgina Cundill, Sarah Rosengaertner, Abdimajid Nunow, Kamal Amakrane, Christopher H. Trisos
- Abstract
The escalating impacts of climate change on the movement and immobility of people, coupled with false but influential narratives of mobility, highlight an urgent need for nuanced and synthetic research around climate mobility. Synthesis of evidence and gaps across the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report highlight a need to clarify the understanding of what conditions make human mobility an effective adaptation option and its nuanced outcomes, including simultaneous losses, damages, and bene- fits. Priorities include integration of adaptation and development planning; involuntary immobility and vulner- ability; gender; data for cities; risk from responses and maladaptation; public understanding of climate risk; transboundary, compound, and cascading risks; nature-based approaches; and planned retreat, relocation, and heritage. Cutting across these priorities, research modalities need to better position climate mobility as type of mobility, as process, and as praxis. Policies and practices need to reflect the diverse needs, priorities, and experiences of climate mobility, emphasizing capability, choice, and freedom of movement.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Geography and Regional Research
- External organisation(s)
- University of Miami, University of East Anglia, Carleton University Ottawa, University of Delaware, Overseas Development Institute, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Indian Institute for Human Settlements, University of Southampton, CSIR-Science and Technology Policy Research Institute, International Development Research Centre, Africa Climate Mobility Initiative, Columbia University in the City of New York, IGAD Center of Excellence for Climate Adaptation and Environmental Protection, University of Cape Town, University of Leeds, Leeds Beckett University
- Journal
- One Earth
- Volume
- 7
- Pages
- 589-607
- No. of pages
- 19
- ISSN
- 2590-3330
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2024.02.002
- Publication date
- 2024
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 105205 Climate change, 504021 Migration research, 509023 Development research
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Environmental Science, Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous)
- Sustainable Development Goals
- SDG 13 - Climate Action
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/55718046-0e94-4823-a992-420c830dc603