Migrations in the context of climate vulnerability and resilience
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https://doi.org/10.7494/human.2025.24.1.6975Keywords:
migrations, environmental migrations, climate vulnerability and resilience, social inequalities, climate justiceAbstract
The aim of the paper is to summarize research on the connections between human mobility and climate change. The first part discusses selected social consequences of climate change, especially those with potential impact on migrations (including rising sea levels, epidemiological threats and temperature changes). Emphasis has been placed on factors which, on the one hand, make certain populations and subgroups thereof vulnerable to climate change and, on the other hand, factors which make individuals and groups resilient to climate change impacts. In the second part, the paper discusses unequal impacts and unequal contribution to the climate crisis. The main part highlights key features of environmental migrations. This type of mobility constitutes an adaptive strategy employed in a particular social and economic context and depending on one’s place in the social structure.
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