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Human mobility

Reducing, preparing for and responding to disaster displacement. Integrating disaster displacement and other related forms of human mobility into regional, national, sub-national and local DRR strategies.

Latest Human mobility additions in the Knowledge Base

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The reality behind false claims about ‘criminal migrants’

Journalist Todd Miller talks about the role climate change plays in migration to the U.S.-Mexico border.
Yale Climate Connections
Abandoned flooded houses in Bentiu City South Sudan
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South Sudan floods: the first example of a mass population permanently displaced by climate change?

Enormous floods have once again engulfed much of South Sudan, as record water-levels in Lake Victoria flow downstream through the Nile. More than 700,000 people have been affected.
Conversation Media Group, the
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New report reveals children of migrants bear the brunt of climate change-related migration in Southeast Asia

A new report shows how migration in the context of climate change is profoundly affecting the lives of children in Southeast Asia.
World Vision International
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Documents and publications

Enhanced forest fire evacuation planning using real-time sensor and GPS algorithm

The purpose of this paper is to present a novel algorithm that significantly improves the efficiency and effectiveness of evacuation planning in areas affected by forest fires.
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Documents and publications

What predicts hurricane evacuation decisions? The importance of efficacy beliefs, risk perceptions, and other factors

This article uses data from a hypothetical hurricane situation presented in a survey to examine the roles of different factors in influencing evacuation decisions.
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Exploring the relationship between vulnerability and adaptation of rural households: Disaster resettlement experience from rural China

This study analyzes the implications of disaster resettlement on “vulnerability–adaptation” categories in southern Shaanxi by measuring specific and general resilience.
A young boy walking across a refugee camp in Syria.
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How AI is advancing socioeconomic insights into disaster displacement

To better understand and anticipate disaster displacement, this investigative journey employs a type of artificial intelligence (AI) with transformative potential: machine learning. T
Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC)
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Documents and publications

Rare and highly destructive wildfires drive human migration in the U.S.

This study investigated the 519 most destructive wildfires in the contiguous U.S. between 1999 and 2020, examining direct and indirect pathways of wildfire-driven impacts on human migration.
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Planned relocation
Planned relocation
These resources analyse how well-planned relocations can help to increase resilience and reduce disaster risk.

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