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DOI	10.1007/s10113-022-01973-5
	Exploring the benefits and dis-benefits of climate migration as an adaptive strategy along the rural-peri-urban continuum in Namibia
	Thorn, Jessica P. R.; Nangolo, Penelao; Biancardi, Rebeca Aleu; Shackleton, Sheona; Marchant, Robert A.; Ajala, Olayinka; Delgado, Guillermo; Mfune, John K. E.; Cinderby, Steve; Hejnowicz, Adam P.
通讯作者	Thorn, JPR
来源期刊	REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
ISSN	1436-3798
EISSN	1436-378X
出版年	2023
卷号	23 期号:1
英文摘要	The scale of climate migration across the Global South is expected to increase during this century. By 2050, millions of Africans are likely to consider, or be pushed into, migration because of climate hazards contributing to agricultural disruption, water and food scarcity, desertification, flooding, drought, coastal erosion, and heat waves. However, the migration-climate nexus is complex, as is the question of whether migration can be considered a climate change adaptation strategy across both the rural and urban space. Combining data from household surveys, key informant interviews, and secondary sources related to regional disaster, demographic, resource, and economic trends between 1990 and 2020 from north central and central dryland Namibia, we investigate (i) human migration flows and the influence of climate hazards on these flows and (ii) the benefits and dis-benefits of migration in supporting climate change adaptation, from the perspective of migrants (personal factors and intervening obstacles), areas of origin, and areas of destination. Our analysis suggests an increase in climate-related push factors that could be driving rural out-migration from the north central region to peri-urban settlements in the central region of the country. While push factors play a role in rural-urban migration, there are also several pull factors (many of which have been long-term drivers of urban migration) such as perceived higher wages, diversity of livelihoods, water, health and energy provisioning, remittances, better education opportunities, and the exchange of non-marketed products. Migration to peri-urban settlements can reduce some risks (e.g. loss of crops and income due to climate extremes) but amplify others (e.g. heat stress and insecure land tenure). Adaptation at both ends of the rural-urban continuum is supported by deeply embedded linkages in a model of circular rural-urban-rural migration and interdependencies. Results empirically inform current and future policy debates around climate mobilities in Namibia, with wider implications across Africa.
英文关键词	Climate mobilities Environmental migrants Migration dynamics Peri-urban settlements Rural-urban migration Sub-Saharan Africa
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	Green Published, hybrid, Green Accepted
收录类别	SCI-E ; SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000899418800002
WOS关键词	ENVIRONMENTAL-CHANGE ; LAND DEGRADATION ; OUT-MIGRATION ; URBANIZATION ; VARIABILITY ; RAINFALL ; CONTEXT ; VULNERABILITY ; ADAPTATION ; RESILIENCE
WOS类目	Environmental Sciences ; Environmental Studies
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/398216
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Thorn, Jessica P. R.,Nangolo, Penelao,Biancardi, Rebeca Aleu,et al. Exploring the benefits and dis-benefits of climate migration as an adaptive strategy along the rural-peri-urban continuum in Namibia[J],2023,23(1).
APA	Thorn, Jessica P. R..,Nangolo, Penelao.,Biancardi, Rebeca Aleu.,Shackleton, Sheona.,Marchant, Robert A..,...&Hejnowicz, Adam P..(2023).Exploring the benefits and dis-benefits of climate migration as an adaptive strategy along the rural-peri-urban continuum in Namibia.REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE,23(1).
MLA	Thorn, Jessica P. R.,et al."Exploring the benefits and dis-benefits of climate migration as an adaptive strategy along the rural-peri-urban continuum in Namibia".REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE 23.1(2023).