The authors argue that if we are to create migration policies that balance the human rights of migrants with the security concerns of host populations, we will need evidence based answers to addressquestions such as whether the unprecedented level of migration is unsustainable, and that these migrants threaten the host's way of life.
The authors outline the key extensions of the National Research Council's People and Pixels foundation since 1998. The article highlight several breakthroughs in research on human–environment interactions. It also identify pressing research problems—disaster, famine, drought, war, poverty, climate change—and explore how interdisciplinary approaches integrating people and pixels are being used to address them.
Malthus is long dead, but his ideas live on and are still widely debated today. The author argues that Malthus was probably right, after all.
The world is on an unsustainable path of growth. Technology and earlier fertility decline are critical for longer-term environmental purposes but will not resolve the immediate social or environmental crises. For George Martine, a redefinition of “development” and a radically different use of scarce global resources are the most pressing issues to be addressed.
In this article, the author claims that with four billion extra inhabitants on our planet in the next century constitute a serious threat to survival, greater than most observers acknowledge. He argues that greater international cooperation is needed both to achieve the goal of curbing demographic growth and to manage the already scarce resources of our planet.
This article examines how migration may act as an intervening and causal variable between environmental change and conflict by combining climate-conflict and environment-migration research. It argues that to understand the potential propensity of environmental change to lead to conflict in Africa, close attention needs to be paid to local-level manifestations of conflict and (mal)adaptive forms of migration.
This article analyzes how the international community is dealing with the concept of climate change refugees, an emergent and undeniable reality.
The paper discusses the builds on recent momentum in the development and implementation of transdisciplinary collaborations that simultaneously consider human, nonhuman, and environmental health and the nonlinear relationships between them.
The authors discussed the most comprehensive climate, vegetation and human-dispersal modelling study performed so far as presented Timmermann and Friedrich in a paper online in Nature.
In this article, the authors discussed the risks that the emerging narrative on ‘migration as adaptation’ entails, they question how the shift from climate refugees to climate migration could signal a marginalisation of the very problem of ‘climate justice’ in the debate on the climate change and migration nexus.
