The climate security-mobility nexus: Impact pathways and research priorities

This paper combines a qualitative literature review with a quantitative portfolio analysis to identify key impact pathways of the climate security-mobility nexus and formulate recommendations for future research and policy interventions.

Four key impact pathways that connect climate change and variability, mobility, and conflict are identified and explored in greater detail: conflict as a result of climate-related disaster displacement, conflict as a result of scarcity-related mobility, conflict as a result of abundance-related migration, and conflict as a result of pre-existing tensions and migratory patterns interacting with climate change and/or variability.