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        <pubDate>2026-05-03T18:41:59.739+00:00</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Assessing local governments’ preparedness and willingness to welcome climate and disaster-displaced populations]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-03-09T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Perspective</category>
        <author>Jared Enriquez</author>
        <description><![CDATA[Environmental hazards and climate change are displacing millions of people globally. Many regions and cities have, or will soon become, the frontline recipient destinations for domestic and foreign climate migrants, but how well prepared are local governments for resettling newcomers, and what factors determine when local communities are willing to welcome displaced residents? This paper reviews how local governments in the United States seek to actualize effective and equitable climate resettlement through the proposal of a community-led, inclusive receiving community framework. The framework identifies how the interrelationships between government, market, and community actors co-determine the preparedness and willingness of local governments to expand programs, plans, and initiatives for resettling diverse climate and disaster-displaced populations. The framework validates how equity and inclusion require deliberative logics of care and establishing strategic goals for mutual opportunity in climate destinations. Finally, this perspective proposes that local governments develop and complete an absorptive capacity impact assessment to help estimate the volume and types of climate migrants the community can receive over time and support community-led planning processes.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Anti-racist reorientations to land through gardening with newcomer youth of color]]></title>
        <pubdate>2025-12-15T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
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        <author>Riann Lognon</author><author>Chetna Khandelwal</author><author>Megha Sanyal</author><author>Santanu Dutta</author><author>Pallavi Banerjee</author><author>Pratim Sengupta</author>
        <description><![CDATA[Our paper seeks to dis/orient normative scholarship on climate migration and climate refugees that reify misleading claims about the relationship between mass migration and climate change, which have been shown to further marginalization of people from the Global South. We orient our attention to a topic that has received considerably less attention in the literature on critical environmental studies: how newcomer (refugee) youth of color (re)establish relationships with more-than-human life, land, air, and water in their newly adopted home in the Global North. Drawing from a three-year-long, community gardening project co-created with the youth, we offer a qualitative analysis of the youths’ participatory, embodied, and discursive work over the first 2 years of creating and caring for the community garden. From a pragmatic perspective, our work arises from the concern that families and youth of color in North America are intersectionally disadvantaged in terms of accessing city resources and public spaces during their resettlement, as noted by critical sociologists of race, migration and gender. Our study reveals how the youths’ participation was centered in the garden through adopting an anti-racist praxis, while also offering an expansive vision of how race and climate are implicated in migration.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Correction: Exposure to climate risks and youth engagement with climate change]]></title>
        <pubdate>2025-10-14T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
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        <author>Max Blessman</author><author>Kristin F. Hurst</author><author>Christopher J. Nelson</author><author>Ross J. Toedte</author><author>Jennifer D. Tyrell</author>
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        <title><![CDATA[Correction: Perspectives on climate change and adaptation in Fijian villages contemplating relocation]]></title>
        <pubdate>2025-10-06T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Editorial: Climate mobility modeling: methodological advances and future prospects]]></title>
        <pubdate>2025-10-06T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
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        <author>Andrea Milan</author><author>Gabriele Standardi</author>
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        <title><![CDATA[Exposure to climate risks and youth engagement with climate change]]></title>
        <pubdate>2025-09-15T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
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        <author>Max Blessman</author><author>Kristin F. Hurst</author><author>Christopher J. Nelson</author><author>Ross J. Toedte</author><author>Jennifer D. Tyrell</author>
        <description><![CDATA[Effectively mitigating and adapting to the effects of climate change over the coming decades will require the active engagement of today’s youth. This research adds to a growing body of work focused on youth climate change engagement by testing whether physical exposure to climate risks influences middle school and high school students’ intentions to engage in pro-climate behaviors above and beyond several previously identified social and psychological variables. A total of 222 middle and high school students across 11 states were surveyed to measure cognitive, social, and demographic factors known to influence pro-climate behavior. We combined this survey data with data from a national assessment of climate risks and conducted a hierarchical regression model predicting intentions to engage in pro-climate behaviors. Physical exposure to climate risks was not a significant predictor in our model. Rather, we found that the only significant predictors of behavioral intentions were perceived risks of climate change and frequency of discussions with friends and family. Since the size and geographic distribution of our sample was limited, future research is needed to build on these findings and the role youth may play in mitigating climate change.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Perspectives on climate change and adaptation in Fijian villages contemplating relocation]]></title>
        <pubdate>2025-09-04T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Brief Research Report</category>
        <author>Yuki Yoshida</author><author>Giles B. Sioen</author><author>Gauna Metuisela</author><author>Richard Crichton</author>
        <description><![CDATA[Planned relocation is increasingly recognized as a necessary response to escalating climate risks, yet little is known about how such decisions unfold at the community level. Drawing on dialogs and field visits at seven iTaukei (Indigenous Fijian) villages across Fiji, this report examines how communities are experiencing and responding to climate-related challenges. Findings reveal cascading impacts—including flooding, land loss, disrupted livelihoods, and psychological stress—that have prompted a range of adaptation strategies, from in-situ adjustments to full or partial relocation, with mixed outcomes. Despite growing pressures, most communities expressed a strong, culturally grounded preference to remain in place. Challenges in reaching consensus and securing funding reflect the complexity of relocation processes. Moreover, traditional governance structures do not always ensure equal participation, highlighting the importance of attending to intra-community dynamics. To minimize loss and damage while ensuring agency and resilience of frontline communities, climate mobility frameworks will need to support anticipatory planning, uphold community agency, and recognize immobility as a legitimate and often preferred option.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[A fair-for-all perspective for climate migrants and destinations]]></title>
        <pubdate>2025-08-06T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
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        <author>Buket Cilali</author><author>Kash Barker</author><author>Andrés D. González</author><author>Chie Noyori-Corbett</author>
        <description><![CDATA[Climate change is already upon us. Millions of people are expected to be displaced due to the severe and slow-onset impacts. These displacements will lead to large-scale movements from high-risk and less resilient areas to safer or more resilient areas, creating a relocation problem: where people should go and when. This complex problem involves factors such as the source and extent of relocation demand, identification and capacity of destinations, movements from origins to destinations, and the well-being and dignity of both the displaced and receiving communities. We intend to solve the resulting relocation problem at different levels, starting with high-level decisions about which destinations to choose and how many people to send there. This will facilitate early preparations, such as infrastructure and service planning, at these destinations, ensuring timely action without delays. But in such a complicated problem, what could be the measure of the success of certain relocation decisions compared to others? We consider it requisite that the level of social integration at the destination locations and the fairness of the flow decisions are pivotal to a successful relocation plan and should be thoroughly analyzed. The moral imperative of fairness in these decisions cannot be overstated. That is why our study focuses on the fairness of movements within the context of a relocation problem: how many people from each origin should go to each climate destination in a way that is fair for both climate migrants and receiving communities. To this end, we formulate an optimization model such that the objectives and constraints reflect the key aspects of the relocation problem to assign the number of people to be relocated from each origin to each destination. The model incorporates multiple fairness metrics into objectives representing the perspectives of different stakeholders. These metrics are then analyzed and compared to evaluate trade-offs in the results.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Retreat in real time—Nantucket’s balancing act along a changing coast]]></title>
        <pubdate>2025-07-29T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
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        <author>Devon J. McKaye</author><author>Vincent Murphy</author><author>Leah Hill</author>
        <description><![CDATA[Nantucket, an island about 30 miles off the coast of Massachusetts, has long embraced retreat in response to coastal hazards. This community case study examines how Nantucket is enhancing its resilience by adapting to increasing coastal storms, erosion, and sea level rise through strategic retreat and relocation. Nantucketers have historically moved structures such as lighthouses and homes away from the coastline, but the increasing frequency and intensity of storms demand more comprehensive and adaptable solutions. Through resilience planning and policy efforts, the Town of Nantucket is addressing these challenges by balancing short- and long-term objectives, public and private interests, and equity considerations. Lessons learned from Nantucket’s experiences are applicable to other communities facing similar coastal risks, highlighting the importance of strategic planning, community support, and capacity building for effective retreat and relocation.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Reconciliation or restoration? The ecological futures of floodplain buyout sites]]></title>
        <pubdate>2025-07-28T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
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        <author>Jamie Vanucchi</author><author>Linda Shi</author><author>Carri Hulet</author>
        <description><![CDATA[What happens to floodplain buyout sites after demolition of structures? Does ecological restoration or reconciliation of the floodplain occur? By what criteria should we assess what is on the site? Under what conditions do government programs promote more ecologically dynamic land management? We explore these questions in the context of four exemplary buyout programs in the United States that implement relocation out of flood risk zones through buyouts: Austin’s Watershed Protection Department, Texas; Harris County Flood Control District, Texas; Charlotte-Mecklenburg’s Stormwater Services, North Carolina; and Washington State’s Floodplains by Design. The analysis draws on staff interviews and GIS mapping, satellite imagery for 3,416 buyout parcels spanning 2,811 acres, and selected field verification. We test a framework for assessing buyouts that includes both pre- and post-buyout considerations as indicators along a spectrum from reconciliation to restoration. Our findings show that the status of most buyout parcels is “in-waiting,” as land management practices evolve to decide on their long-term use. Federal buyout requirements prevent redevelopment, but it is local and state priorities, goals, capacities, partnerships and levels of community engagement that shape land management outcomes and long-term human-nature relations. While the reconciliation-restoration debate often pits social against ecological goals, we find that they are mutually reinforcing, and that deep community engagement yields better outcomes overall. Floodplains are high value landscapes and should be prioritized for repair. State and federal governments can help achieve greater ecological and social outcomes from buyout sites by issuing more explicit guidance, technical assistance, and funding support to achieve these aims.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Evaluating pre-disaster subsidized relocations in coastal Louisiana via a game-theoretic approach]]></title>
        <pubdate>2025-07-14T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
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        <author>Fangyuan Li</author><author>Pragathi Jha</author><author>David R. Johnson</author>
        <description><![CDATA[Coastal communities face increasing flood risks due to sea level rise and climate change, necessitating more proactive risk reduction strategies. Pre-disaster relocations, supported by government subsidies, offer a potentially cost-effective solution, enabling at-risk homeowners to relocate before catastrophic losses occur. This study estimates the potential effectiveness and equity implications of two pre-disaster relocation strategies using an optimization framework and high-resolution flood risk and structural data from Louisiana’s Coastal Master Plan. Our findings indicate that a total investment of about $8 billion US in pre-disaster relocations could achieve approximately $0.5 billion in flood risk reduction annually over the next 50 years, with greater benefits in later years corresponding to increasing hazard as sea levels rise. Subsidies are allocated proportionally to flood risk, ensuring procedural fairness, though potential distributional inequities remain. While pre-disaster relocation strategies improve cost-effectiveness and risk mitigation, they do not fully resolve barriers to relocation, including housing affordability, community attachment, and structural inequities in flood exposure. This study provides quantitative insights into relocation feasibility and trade-offs, informing future research on adaptive relocation strategies and equity-focused flood mitigation policies.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Refugees and host communities’ vulnerability to climate and disaster risks in Rwanda]]></title>
        <pubdate>2025-06-26T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
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        <author>Nfamara K. Dampha</author><author>Colette Salemi</author><author>Stephen Polasky</author><author>Amare Gebre Egziabher</author><author>Wendy Rappeport</author>
        <description><![CDATA[Climate change hazards pose significant risks to vulnerable populations, particularly refugees residing in camps within environmentally sensitive areas. This study assesses climate and disaster risks in refugee-hosting districts in Rwanda using GIS-based risk mapping, decision science tools (AHP), remote sensing, and econometric analysis. The findings reveal spatial variability in hazard exposure across camps, with Mahama and Mugombwa refugee camps experiencing the highest flood risks, while Gihembe, Kiziba, and Kigeme camps are most susceptible to landslides. Between 2013 and 2021, landslides resulted in the damage of 324 hectares of cropland in Gihembe district and caused 110 fatalities in Kiziba’s district in 2016 alone. The study also finds that Mahama camp is highly vulnerable to drought, reflecting national data indicating that 4.2 million Rwandans were affected by droughts between 1974 and 2018. In addition, Kiziba camp exhibits severe soil erosion, with up to 19 million tons of annual soil loss in its watershed area. This erosion, exacerbated by deforestation due to firewood harvesting and construction material collection, weakens slope stability, intensifying landslide risks and increasing sediment transport into local water sources, thereby impacting water quality. Our results support recent disaster management decisions by the Government of Rwanda and UNHCR, including the closure of Gihembe camp in 2021 due to landslide risks and the relocation of vulnerable populations from Kigeme camp due to erosion-induced ravine formation. While these interventions reduce immediate risks, continued efforts are needed to enhance camp resilience, strengthen early warning systems, and integrate nature-based solutions into long-term disaster risk management.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Feature importance of climate vulnerability indicators with gradient boosting across five global cities]]></title>
        <pubdate>2025-06-25T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
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        <author>Lidia Cano Pecharroman</author><author>Melissa Oberon Tier</author><author>Elke U. Weber</author>
        <description><![CDATA[Efforts are needed to better identify and measure both communities’ exposure to climate hazards and the social vulnerabilities that interact with these hazards, but the science of validating climate risk indicators is still in its infancy. Progress is needed to improve: (1) the selection of variables that are used as proxies to represent hazard exposure and vulnerability; (2) the applicability and scale for which these indicators are intended, including their suitability for transnational comparisons. We draw on an international urban survey in Buenos Aires, Argentina; Johannesburg, South Africa; London, United Kingdom; New York City, United States; and Seoul, South Korea that collected data on: exposure to various types of extreme weather events, socioeconomic characteristics commonly used as proxies for vulnerability (i.e., income, education level, gender, and age), and additional characteristics not often included in existing composite indices (i.e., Queer identity, disability identity, non-dominant primary language, and self-perceptions of both discrimination and vulnerability to climate hazard risk). We use feature importance analysis with gradient-boosted decision trees to measure the importance that these variables have in predicting exposure to various types of extreme weather events. Our results show that non-traditional variables were more relevant to self-reported exposure to extreme weather events than traditionally employed variables such as income or age. Furthermore, differences in variable relevance across different types of hazards and across urban contexts suggest that vulnerability indicators need to be fit to context and should not be used in a one-size-fits-all fashion.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[When boundaries are blurred: infrastructure needs in support of the climate displaced]]></title>
        <pubdate>2025-05-30T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Perspective</category>
        <author>Kelsea Best</author><author>Deb Niemeier</author><author>Jennifer Hadden</author>
        <description><![CDATA[Interactions between climate change and human displacement are complex, yet it is clear that climate change has and will continue to alter patterns of mobility. This is true for both trans-border displacement and internal displacement within country borders. Very little attention has been given to the infrastructure needed to support the climate displaced during their journey as well as in communities where they may pause or settle. In contrast to the climate displaced, reasons for refugee flight can range from deprivation, poverty, war, or disasters, and the statutory definition of refugee entitles them to the protection and assistance of the United Nations. This definition does not currently apply to those who move or are displaced because of climate change, though their displacement is no less perilous or traumatic than those protected under the UN Refugee Convention. Regardless of the legal status, engineers are largely absent from conversations about how to support and protect those undergoing displacement from climate change. In this paper, we draw on the general literature of forced displacement and the existing legal processes for refugees to explore the stages in climate-related displacement. We propose a framework for understanding the basic infrastructure needs during four phases: initiation, mobilization, pause and settle. We identify critical infrastructure to support the climate displaced for each of these phases, calling out those aspects of the displacement process in which greater understanding of how engineers can contribute to protection of human rights is needed.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The magnitude of climate change-induced migration: an overview of projections and a case for attribution]]></title>
        <pubdate>2025-05-19T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Mini Review</category>
        <author>Jacob Schewe</author><author>Robert Beyer</author>
        <description><![CDATA[Many studies now provide evidence of weather and climate effects on human migration, but only few have attempted to project the impact of future climate change, or attribute the impact of past climate change, on global migration patterns. Here we compare the existing projections, and find that for international migration from African countries, they differ by about two orders of magnitude, while for internal migration even the sign is uncertain. None of the various models used have been shown to explain historical migration changes, limiting the confidence one may have in their projections. We then discuss prospects for two types of models. Econometric models have been used to identify the marginal effects of climate on migration. Their utility for projections is limited, but they may lend themselves to specific questions of attributing current migration patterns to climate change, which has rarely been done so far. On the other hand, models of total migration can better account for the complex dynamics likely important for long-term projections, but constraining them is a challenge given the current understanding of these dynamics. Improvements may come from closer investigation of potential nonlinearities in the response to increasingly extreme climatic conditions.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Projecting climate migration in Bangladesh using agent based modeling and climate data]]></title>
        <pubdate>2025-05-09T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Orla O'Neill</author><author>Guus J. M. Velders</author><author>Bishawjit Mallick</author><author>Kelsea Best</author>
        <description><![CDATA[IntroductionThere is fear that climate change will lead to the displacement of millions of people in the next 100 years. This has led to increased academic interest in estimating the trends of climate-related migration. Bangladesh is particularly vulnerable to climate change and is very likely to experience mass climate migration before the end of the century. Efforts have been made to forecast this climate migration using agent based modeling. Less attention has been paid to how the physical climate is represented in these models.MethodsWe address this gap, by developing an agent based model which takes dynamic climate input from climate models, i.e. data on temperature, precipitation and wind speed. It translates climate scenario data from the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) into a likelihood that a region in Bangladesh will experience extreme weather (heatwaves, floods, and cyclones) and finds the possible migration outcomes. It can run on an upazila level, the smallest administrative division in Bangladesh.ResultsThe model shows that there will be an accumulative number of over 22 million internal climate migrants in Bangladesh by 2050, with most of the migrants originating from the center of the country and migrating to other upazilas in the center and the southeast.DiscussionThe inclusion of different types of extreme weather events is used to try to project the spatial movement of migrants. The projected number of migrants found is much greater than other studies in this area, but the locations that they move between remains the same.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Putting migration in context: a review of how theory and methods shape climate-induced migration research findings]]></title>
        <pubdate>2025-04-11T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Review</category>
        <author>Matthew Turner</author><author>Anika M. Rice</author><author>Emily Fornof</author><author>Jesse Ribot</author>
        <description><![CDATA[Widespread media reports that climate change is driving international migration have led to an upsurge in research seeking to verify this phenomenon. In a methodological review of this research, we identified close to 3,000 studies referring to climate-induced emigration from Mesoamerica and West Africa and found only 102 that empirically evaluate the causal link. We analyze the causal inference implications of these 102 studies’ methodological characteristics and how these are shaped by conceptual framing, data sources, and region. Cluster analysis identified three groups of studies based on conceptual framing–45 largely ignoring and 33 fully engaging with the context of migration decisions and vulnerabilities of those exposed to climate change, with 24 in between. Studies were also coded for how they incorporated key methodological features needed to support causal claims. We find that conceptual framings, choice of data, and data availability in each study region strongly influence the prevalence of basic causal inference problems (e.g., mismatched spatial and temporal scales, over-aggregation of migration data, lumping of destination types). A key feature of ‘decontextual’ studies is an over-reliance on weather-migration correlation. These approaches neglect the causal nexus surrounding migration, which involves many factors beyond those attached to weather but which may co-vary in certain instances. Such analyses are prone to spurious correlations and fail to address the specifics of who migrates in the face of climate change and why.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Ecomyopia on the Chesapeake: social and cultural barriers to climate-induced managed retreat]]></title>
        <pubdate>2025-04-03T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
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        <author>David G. Casagrande</author><author>Aaron Lampman</author>
        <description><![CDATA[Ecomyopia is the tendency to ignore important environmental information that challenges structures of power and place-based identities. Predictions of relative sea-level rise on the Eastern Shore of Maryland include catastrophic land loss over the next 50 years but have not promoted serious discussion about managed retreat. We review literature emerging from Mary Douglas’ theory of the cultural construction of environmental risk and psychological theories of cognitive dissonance and social identity to examine why many residents of the Chesapeake Bay resist relocation in the face of rising sea level. We use this theoretical synthesis to analyze 63 in-depth interviews conducted on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay to examine how social institutions and widely shared narratives of heritage and identity frame discussion of sea-level rise. Technological solutions to shoreline erosion dominate the discourse as a means of avoiding cognitive dissonance caused by relocation’s existential threat to place-based identity. As predicted by the Cultural Theory of Risk, group identities shape risk perceptions associated with rising sea level and climate change. Discourse in our case study illustrates how confirmation bias is a social process and why those who challenge the status quo are marginalized as environmental information is transformed into preferred solutions. We generalize from this case study to explain how ecomyopia can preclude managed retreat as a rational strategy in regions threatened by anthropogenic climate change and rising sea levels.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Innovations in buyouts: lessons from lived and learned experience]]></title>
        <pubdate>2025-03-25T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
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        <author>Anna Weber</author><author>Kristin Marcell</author><author>Maggie Osthues</author><author>Shameika Hanson</author><author>Carri Hulet</author>
        <description><![CDATA[Across the United States, tens of thousands of people have sold their homes to the government to address risk from flooding or another natural hazard. After the sale, the structure is typically demolished and the land preserved as open space. This process, referred to as a home buyout, is the nation’s primary mechanism for relocation assistance in the aftermath of a disaster or in the face of recurring hazards, and the number of homes that have been purchased and demolished in the past is dwarfed by the number that is anticipated in the future. Community members, researchers, practitioners, and advocates have long observed challenges with government-funded home buyout programs in the United States. Often, home buyouts do not meet communities’ needs and can even create new problems. At the same time, demand for relocation support is growing in many areas, while current funding, programming, and expertise is insufficient to address the scale of the challenge. We need better buyouts that work for residents and local governments alike. To build a better buyout, we need to draw from the lived and learned experiences of both community members and practitioners. Between December 2021 and October 2022, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), in partnership with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), CH Consulting, The Nature Conservancy (TNC), and the Climigration Network, convened conversations with buyout practitioners and buyout participants/residents of communities affected by buyouts. The participants spanned 14 states, from coastal to inland locations across the contiguous United States. This policy and practice review summarizes the recommendations generated through these workshop series, as well as the methods used to design and facilitate the sessions and subsequent work done to implement the recommendations and develop a community of practice for better buyouts.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Spatial assessment of current and future migration in response to climate risks in Ghana and Nigeria]]></title>
        <pubdate>2025-02-26T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Alina Schürmann</author><author>Mike Teucher</author><author>Janina Kleemann</author><author>Justice Nana Inkoom</author><author>Benjamin Kofi Nyarko</author><author>Appollonia Aimiosino Okhimamhe</author><author>Christopher Conrad</author>
        <description><![CDATA[West Africa’s vulnerability to climate change is influenced by a complex interplay of socio-economic and environmental factors, exacerbated by the region’s reliance on rain-fed agriculture. Climate variability, combined with rapid population growth, intensifies existing socio-economic challenges. Migration has become a key adaptive response to these challenges, enabling communities to diversify livelihoods and enhance resilience. However, spatial patterns of migration in response to climate risks are not fully understood. Thus, the study evaluates the applicability of the IPCC risk assessment framework to map and predict migration patterns in Ghana and Nigeria, with a focus on identifying areas of potential out-migration. By integrating geospatial environmental, socio-economic, and population data, the study highlights areas that have a higher likelihood of migration for the current baseline and near future (2050). Future climate is modeled using CMIP6 projections under the RCP4.5 scenario, while population projections providing insight into future exposure. The results from the baseline assessment are compared with actual migrant motivations, providing a ground-level perspective on migration drivers. In northern Ghana and Nigeria, elevated hazard, vulnerability, and exposure scores suggest a higher likelihood of migration due to the overall risk faced by the population. This pattern is projected to persist in the future. However, migrant responses indicate that environmental factors often play a secondary role, with vulnerability factors cited more frequently as migration drivers. The findings highlight the importance of developing localized adaptation strategies that address the specific needs of vulnerable areas. Additionally, management strategies that enhance community resilience and support sustainable migration pathways will be critical in addressing future climate-induced migration challenges.]]></description>
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