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| DOI | 10.1007/s10584-019-02648-7 |
| Climate change; ecosystem services and migration in the Marshall Islands: are they related? | |
| van der Geest K.; Burkett M.; Fitzpatrick J.; Stege M.; Wheeler B. | |
| 发表日期 | 2020 |
| ISSN | 0165-0009 |
| 起始页码 | 109 |
| 结束页码 | 127 |
| 卷号 | 161期号:1 |
| 英文摘要 | As one of the lowest-lying island nation states in the world, the Republic of the Marshall Islands is vulnerable to sea level rise, flooding and the associated impacts on soil and water salinity. Persistent drought is further affecting agricultural production and access to drinking water, and heat stress is increasingly common. The number of Marshallese people residing in the USA has increased rapidly from 6650 in 2000 to an estimated 30,000 in 2018. While we know that climate change is already affecting the Marshall Islands and that there are significant migration flows, we do not know to what extent people already migrate because of climate change. This paper addresses this gap and presents findings from interdisciplinary fieldwork in the Marshall Islands and destination areas in the USA. The research team conducted a survey (N = 278), focus group discussions, expert interviews and a geo-spatial analysis of flood extent and migration rates to study the relationship between climatic events, ecosystem services and migration. The results show that respondents primarily cite education, health care, work and family visits as migration drivers, and only few mention climate impacts or environmental change. However, respondents do identify impacts of climate change on their livelihoods, health and safety, and the study finds significant correlations between climate impacts, trends in ecosystem services and migration propensities at household level. Furthermore, 62% of Marshallese respondents in the USA indicated that climate change affects their decision to return to Marshall Islands in the future. © 2020, The Author(s). |
| 英文关键词 | Climate change; Drought; Ecosystem services; Migration; Pacific; Sea level rise |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| scopus关键词 | Agricultural robots; Agriculture; Driver training; Ecosystems; Floods; Heating; Potable water; Sea level; Agricultural productions; Climate impacts; Climatic events; Ecosystem services; Environmental change; Geo-spatial analysis; Health and safety; Migration flows; Climate change; agricultural production; climate change; drinking water; ecosystem service; fieldwork; flooding; interdisciplinary approach; nature-society relations; questionnaire survey; salinity; sea level change; vulnerability; Marshall Islands |
| 来源期刊 | Climatic Change
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| 文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
| 条目标识符 | http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/147139 |
| 作者单位 | United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security, Bonn, Germany; University of Hawaii at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, United States; Marshall Islands Conservation Society, Majuro, Marshall Islands; Clark University, Worcester, MA, United States |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | van der Geest K.,Burkett M.,Fitzpatrick J.,et al. Climate change; ecosystem services and migration in the Marshall Islands: are they related?[J],2020,161(1). |
| APA | van der Geest K.,Burkett M.,Fitzpatrick J.,Stege M.,&Wheeler B..(2020).Climate change; ecosystem services and migration in the Marshall Islands: are they related?.Climatic Change,161(1). |
| MLA | van der Geest K.,et al."Climate change; ecosystem services and migration in the Marshall Islands: are they related?".Climatic Change 161.1(2020). |
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