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DOI	10.3390/su11072142
	Facing Climate Change: What Drives Internal Migration Decisions in the Karst Rocky Regions of Southwest China
	Shi, Guoqing; Lyu, Qiulong; Shangguan, Ziheng; Jiang, Tianhe
通讯作者	Lyu, Qiulong
来源期刊	SUSTAINABILITY
EISSN	2071-1050
出版年	2019
卷号	11 期号:7
英文摘要	Global climate change and its influence on human migration have caused heated debates. There is no consensus about the role of environmental change in shaping migration decisions. To amass more evidence and develop a deeper understanding of the relations between the environment and migration, this paper seeks to evaluate the importance of various drivers (economic, social, political, demographic, and environmental drivers) and determine the internal mechanism in the decision process. The Likert scale was used as the tool for measuring each respondent's perception of the drivers, and the within-group interrater agreement index was used to express the survey data and to select the actual driving forces. As a result, economic, social, and political factors were strong forces that promoted migration directly, while demographic and environmental factors were moderate or weak forces that promoted migration indirectly. The migrants' core consideration was to effectively reduce family risks and sustain their livelihoods by moving to a destination to improve their household income, keep their original social networks, and obtain housing allowances from the local government. Land degradation and meteorological disasters were rooted in the vulnerability and risks of a family, and these factors indirectly influenced the people's decisions by affecting the socioeconomic drivers. We concluded that isolating the environmental drivers from other drivers underlying migration decisions is difficult. Additionally, the internal mechanism indicated that both environmental and non-environmental factors all have an impact on choice in different ways. Future policies should be aimed at increasing sustainable livelihoods and the social resilience of migrant families at a personal level, balancing the development levels of the original locations and destinations, and strengthening international cooperation to reduce the negative effects of climate change at the regional level.
英文关键词	climate change migration decisions drivers family risks livelihoods
类型	Article
语种	英语
国家	Peoples R China
开放获取类型	gold, Green Submitted
收录类别	SCI-E ; SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000466551600319
WOS关键词	ENVIRONMENTAL REFUGEES ; INTERRATER RELIABILITY ; GROUP AGREEMENT ; ADAPTATION ; DESERTIFICATION ; AGRICULTURE ; FERTILITY ; CONTEXT
WOS类目	Green & Sustainable Science & Technology ; Environmental Sciences ; Environmental Studies
WOS研究方向	Science & Technology - Other Topics ; Environmental Sciences & Ecology
来源机构	河海大学
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/218990
作者单位	Hohai Univ, Natl Res Ctr Resettlement, Sch Publ Adm, Nanjing 211100, Jiangsu, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Shi, Guoqing,Lyu, Qiulong,Shangguan, Ziheng,et al. Facing Climate Change: What Drives Internal Migration Decisions in the Karst Rocky Regions of Southwest China[J]. 河海大学,2019,11(7).
APA	Shi, Guoqing,Lyu, Qiulong,Shangguan, Ziheng,&Jiang, Tianhe.(2019).Facing Climate Change: What Drives Internal Migration Decisions in the Karst Rocky Regions of Southwest China.SUSTAINABILITY,11(7).
MLA	Shi, Guoqing,et al."Facing Climate Change: What Drives Internal Migration Decisions in the Karst Rocky Regions of Southwest China".SUSTAINABILITY 11.7(2019).