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WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS-CLIMATE CHANGE
Volume 1, Issue 3, Pages 450-461Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/wcc.51
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- NICHD NIH HHS [R21 HD051146-04, P2C HD066613, R21 HD051146] Funding Source: Medline
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Migration is one of the variety of ways by which human populations adapt to environmental changes. The study of migration in the context of anthropogenic climate change is often approached using the concept of vulnerability and its key functional elements: exposure, system sensitivity, and adaptive capacity. This article explores the interaction of climate change and vulnerability through review of case studies of dry-season migration in the West African Sahel, hurricane-related population displacements in the Caribbean basin, winter migration of 'snowbirds' to the US Sun-belt, and 1930s drought migration on the North American Great Plains. These examples are then used as analogues for identifying general causal, temporal, and spatial dimensions of climate migration, along with potential considerations for policy-making and future research needs. (C) 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. WIREs Clim Change 2010 1 450-461
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