Evaluating migration as successful adaptation to climate change: Trade-offs in well-being, equity, and sustainability
- Autor(en)
- Lucy Szaboova, William Neil Adger, Ricardo Safra de Campos, Amina Maharjan, Patrick Sakdapolrak, Harald Sterly, Declan Conway, Samuel Nii Ardey Codjoe, Mumuni Abu
- Abstrakt
The role of migration as one potential adaptation to climate change is increasingly recognized, but little is known about whether migration constitutes successful adaptation, under what conditions, and for whom. Based on a review of emerging migration science, we propose that migration is a successful adaptation to climate change if it increases well-being, reduces inequality, and promotes sustainability. Well-being, equity, and sustainability represent entry points for identifying trade-offs within and across different social and temporal scales that could potentially undermine the success of migration as adaptation. We show that assessment of success at various scales requires the incorporation of consequences such as loss of population in migration source areas, climate risk in migration destination, and material and non-material flows and economic synergies between source and destination. These dynamics and evaluation criteria can help make migration visible and tractable to policy as an effective adaptation option.
- Organisation(en)
- Institut für Geographie und Regionalforschung
- Externe Organisation(en)
- University of Exeter, International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), London School of Economics and Political Science, University of Ghana
- Journal
- One Earth
- Band
- 6
- Seiten
- 620-631
- Anzahl der Seiten
- 12
- ISSN
- 2590-3330
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2023.05.009
- Publikationsdatum
- 06-2023
- Peer-reviewed
- Ja
- ÖFOS 2012
- 105205 Klimawandel, 504021 Migrationsforschung, 509023 Entwicklungsforschung
- Schlagwörter
- ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
- Environmental Science(all), Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous)
- Sustainable Development Goals
- SDG 5 – Geschlechtergleichheit, SDG 10 – Weniger Ungleichheiten, SDG 1 – Keine Armut, SDG 13 – Maßnahmen zum Klimaschutz
- Link zum Portal
- https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/de/publications/evaluating-migration-as-successful-adaptation-to-climate-change-tradeoffs-in-wellbeing-equity-and-sustainability(a4fac4ad-b945-4034-9220-d5f60d37b5b6).html