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A future agenda for research on climate change and human mobility |
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| Authors: | Robert Oakes Kees Van der Geest Benjamin Schraven Stephen Adaawen Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson Alexander de Sherbinin Benjamin Etzold Juliane Groth Kathleen Hermanns Silvana Lakeman Raphael Nawrotzki Christina Rademacher-Schulz Clemens Romankiewic Diogo Serraglio Harald Sterly Lisa Thalheimer Charlotte Wiederkehr David Williams |
| Institution: | 1. United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS), Bonn, Germany;2. Population Research Centre, Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen, The Netherlands;3. Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESN), University of Columbia, New York, New York, USA;4. Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies (BICC), Bonn, Germany;5. Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Bonn, Germany;6. Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Bonn, Germany
Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Devlopment in Transitional Economies, Halle, Germany;7. University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany;8. German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval), Bonn, Germany;9. No affiliation;10. University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany;11. University of Vienna, Wien, Austria;12. United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS), Bonn, Germany University of Oxford, Oxford, UK;13. Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS) Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht (HZG), Geesthacht, Germany |
| Abstract: | In the past 15 years, research activities focusing on the interlinkages between climate change and human mobility have intensified. At the same time, an increasing number of actors and processes have sought to address human mobility in the context of climate change from a policy perspective. Hitherto, research has been limited in terms of geographical preferences as well as conceptual and methodological focus areas. This paper argues that to address the evolving policy space, future research on climate change in the context of human mobility needs to become more differentiated, integrated and generalized. This includes concerted efforts to better integrate researchers from the global South, improved cross-linkages between different datasets, approaches and disciplines, more longitudinal and comparative studies and development of innovative qualitative and quantitative methods. |
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