Migration and Displacement in a Changing Climate

This book explores voluntary migration, involuntary displacement, and immobility related to climate change, using global examples.

Kelsea Best (Author), Kayly Ober (Author), Robert A. McLeman (Author)

9781009449595, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 17 April 2025

342 pages
25.1 x 17.7 x 2.4 cm, 0.76 kg

'Best, Ober, and McLeman provide a unique reference of case studies on climate-affected migration in the U.S. and elsewhere while positioning them in the context of interdisciplinary theory and policy. I finally have a resource I can use in my own class that includes all of the fundamental material on the subject in one place.' Valerie Mueller, Arizona State University

This book provides insight into the impact of climate change on human mobility - including both migration and displacement - by synthesizing key concepts, research, methodology, policy, and emerging issues surrounding the topic. It illuminates the connections between climate change and its implications for voluntary migration, involuntary displacement, and immobility by providing examples from around the world. The chapters use the latest findings from the natural and social sciences to identify key interactions shaping current climate-related migration, displacement, and immobility; predict future changes in those patterns and methods used to model them; summarize key policy and governance instruments available to us to manage the movements of people in a changing climate; and offer directions for future research and opportunities. This book will be valuable for students, researchers, and policy makers of geography, environmental science, climate and sustainability studies, demography, sociology, public policy, and political science.

Preface
Acknowledgements
1. People on the move in a changing climate
2. Migration and displacement associated with extreme weather events: tropical cyclones, severe storms, heavy rainfall events, and flooding
3. Migration and displacement associated with aridity, drought, heat and wildfires
4. Migration and displacement risks associated with mean sea level rise
5. Data and methods for modeling climate-related migration
6. Policy considerations
7. Emerging issues and future directions
Glossary of key terms
References
Index.

Subject Areas: Meteorology & climatology [RBP]