The popresearchcenters.org website, maintained by PRB’s Center for Public Information on Population Research (CPIPR), explains and publicizes the findings of research from the Population Dynamics Research Centers. Funding is provided by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD).
Migration shapes the lives of those who move and transforms the geographies and economies of their points of departure and destinations alike. The water sector, and the availability of water itself, implicitly and explicitly shape migration flows. Ebb and Flow, Volume 1. Water, Migration, and Development presents new global evidence to advance our understanding of how fluctuations in water availability, as induced by rainfall shocks, influence internal migration, and hence regional development.
The Middle East and North Africa Region encapsulates many of the issues surrounding water and human mobility. It is the most water-scarce region in the world and is experiencing unprecedented levels of forced displacement. Ebb and Flow: Volume 2. Water in the Shadow of Conflict in the Middle East and North Africa examines the links between water risks (harmful outcomes related to water, from droughts and floods to lack of sanitation), conflict, and forced displacement.
This is an artcle about the World Bank’s just-released flagship publication on water that shows that it is a lack of water, rather than too much, that has a greater impact on migration. Ebb and Flow consists of two volumes. Volume 1, Water, Migration, and Development; and Volume 2, Water in the Shadow of Conflict.
In this Review, the authors develop a conceptual model to guide research on the three-way nexus between climate vulnerability, migration, and health. The authors apply their conceptual model to a range of case studies, including Bangladesh, Mexico, Myanmar, and the USA to illustrate that climate vulnerability-migration-health interlinkages are context specific, varying by political, economic, demographic, social, and environmental factors unique to each population and place.
Using bilateral data on asylum seeking applications for 157 countries over the period 2006–2015, and a gravity model, the study examines the causal link between climate, conflict and forced migration. The results indicate that climatic conditions, by affecting drought severity and the likelihood of armed conflict, played a significant role as an explanatory factor for asylum seeking in the period 2011–2015.
To examine how migration may act as an intervening and causal variable between environmental change and conflict, the author has combined climate-conflict and environment-migration research.
The study uses satellite imagery of war-torn Syria, to show how conflict and migration caused sudden reductions in Syrian agricultural land use and water use.
The paper made two two novel contributions to the study of climatic impacts on conflict: first, it attempted a comprehensive test of the effects of precipitation on interstate conflict; second, it developed a theoretical framework, premised in the bargaining model, which moves beyond simple neo-Malthusian conjectures about the relationship between resource scarcity and conflict.
Article highlights population-environmental problems in three geographic sites in the Bay of Bengal Subregion and proposes policy options.
