A Well-Founded Fear of Climate Extremes? Tracing the Footprint of Environmental Migrants

The goal of the subject research is to explore if, where and when data layers align to identify a footprint of environmental migrants. The approved research prospectus very specifically aims to create the world’s first global historic database on environmentally-driven migration –to capture the footprint of environmental migrants through space and time. After two events (an Environmental Demography Course and the UNU Summer Academy), the research agenda has expanded to include a wider coverage of environmental stressors and an exploratory modeling phase. The research agenda entails four phases: 1. Definition/drivers, 2. Database/mapping, 3. Confirmation/case studies and 4. Modeling.

Investigator(s)

Lead Investigator:

Moriniere, Lezlie

Characteristics

Topics:

Threshold

Topics:

Time Lags

Topics:

Feedbacks

Topics:

Surprise

Attributes

Model:

GIS, agent based,microsimulation

Temporal Scope:

longitudinal, historic

Spatial Scope:

global

Natural System:

all ecosystems subject to degradation and/or natural hazards

Human System:

inhabitants, loss of homes, migration

Sponsors

National Science Foundation (NSF) - The only federal agency whose mission includes support for all fields of fundamental science and engineering, except for medical sciences. We are tasked with keeping the United States at the leading edge of discovery in areas from astronomy to geology to zoology. So, in addition to funding research in the traditional academic areas, the agency also supports "high-risk, high pay-off" ideas, novel collaborations and numerous projects that may seem like science fiction today, but which the public will take for granted tomorrow.

Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, Michigan State University - A center of excellence that integrates ecology with socioeconomics, demography, and other disciplines for ecological sustainability from local, national, to global scales.

Global Land Project - A joint research project for land systems in the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme and the International Human Dimensions Programme.

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