TY - JOUR
T1 - Research priorities for climate mobility
AU - Simpson, Nicholas P.
AU - Mach, Katharine J.
AU - Tebboth, Mark G. L.
AU - Gilmore, Elisabeth A.
AU - Siders, A. R.
AU - Holden, Petra
AU - Anderson, Brilé
AU - Singh, Chandni
AU - Sabour, Salma
AU - Stringer, Lindsay C.
AU - Sterly, Harald
AU - Williams, Portia Adade
AU - Meyer, Andreas L. S.
AU - Cundill, Georgina
AU - Rosengaertner, Sarah
AU - Nunow, Abdimajid
AU - Amakrane, Kamal
AU - Trisos, Christopher H.
N1 - Funding Information: Funding for this work was supported by the Global Centre for Climate Mobility ; the South African Research Foundation (grants 136169 and 150906 ); the UK Government’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office ; and the International Development Research Centre , Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (grants 109419-001 and 109223-003 ).
Figures reproduced and adapted for this article from the IPCC 6th Assessment Report have not been subject to formal IPCC review processes and have not been endorsed by the IPCC.
PY - 2024/4/19
Y1 - 2024/4/19
N2 - The escalating impacts of climate change on the movement and immobility of people, coupled with false but influential narratives of mobility, highlight an urgent need for nuanced and synthetic research around climate mobility. Synthesis of evidence and gaps across the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report highlight a need to clarify the understanding of what conditions make human mobility an effective adaptation option and its nuanced outcomes, including simultaneous losses, damages, and benefits. Priorities include integration of adaptation and development planning; involuntary immobility and vulnerability; gender; data for cities; risk from responses and maladaptation; public understanding of climate risk; transboundary, compound, and cascading risks; nature-based approaches; and planned retreat, relocation, and heritage. Cutting across these priorities, research modalities need to better position climate mobility as type of mobility, as process, and as praxis. Policies and practices need to reflect the diverse needs, priorities, and experiences of climate mobility, emphasizing capability, choice, and freedom of movement.
AB - The escalating impacts of climate change on the movement and immobility of people, coupled with false but influential narratives of mobility, highlight an urgent need for nuanced and synthetic research around climate mobility. Synthesis of evidence and gaps across the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report highlight a need to clarify the understanding of what conditions make human mobility an effective adaptation option and its nuanced outcomes, including simultaneous losses, damages, and benefits. Priorities include integration of adaptation and development planning; involuntary immobility and vulnerability; gender; data for cities; risk from responses and maladaptation; public understanding of climate risk; transboundary, compound, and cascading risks; nature-based approaches; and planned retreat, relocation, and heritage. Cutting across these priorities, research modalities need to better position climate mobility as type of mobility, as process, and as praxis. Policies and practices need to reflect the diverse needs, priorities, and experiences of climate mobility, emphasizing capability, choice, and freedom of movement.
KW - adaptation
KW - climate literacy
KW - climate mobility
KW - displacement
KW - heritage
KW - immobility
KW - migration
KW - nature-based approaches
KW - planned retreat
KW - relocation
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U2 - 10.1016/j.oneear.2024.02.002
DO - 10.1016/j.oneear.2024.02.002
M3 - Article
VL - 7
SP - 589
EP - 607
JO - One Earth
JF - One Earth
SN - 2590-3322
IS - 4
ER -
