Perceptions of environmental change and migration decisions
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Migration behavior is influenced by individual perceptions of environmental change rather than by objectively identified environmental stressors.
“Indeed, the literature has found that migration behavior is influenced by individual perceptions of environmental change rather than by objectively identified environmental stressors (Koubi et al., 2016a, 2016b).”
From Environmental shocks and migration among a climate-vulnerable population in Bangladesh (2025) · cites this paper as Koubi et al., 2016b
The literature proposes that different types of environmental events affect migration behavior differently.
“The literature proposes that different types of environmental events affect migration behavior differently (Koubi et al., 2016a, 2016b).”
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“While environmental perceptions have been shown to be important for understanding migration behavior (Koubi et al. 2016), using self-reported data to operationalize affectedness by environmental shocks may raise concerns about motivated reasoning: Respondents who have migrated might exaggerate the…”
- Authors
- Koubi, V., Stoll, S., & Spilker, G.
- Affiliations
- University of Bern (CH)
- Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (CH)
- University of Salzburg (AT)
- Corresponding author
- Koubi, Vally
- Venue
- Climatic Change
- Published
- 2016-08-08
- Volume
- 138
- Issue
- 3-4
- Pages
- 439-451
- ISSN
- 0165-0009 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-1480
- OpenAlex
- W2510033414
- Cited by
- 87
- References
- 8
- Citations by year
- 2026: 6 · 2025: 14 · 2024: 14 · 2023: 12 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 15 · 2020: 10 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 2
- FWCI
- 7.62
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Climatic Change (publishedVersion)
- DORA Eawag (Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag)) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- BORIS (University Library Bern) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- KOPS (University of Konstanz) (submittedVersion)
- Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- ETH Zürich Research Collection
- Funders
- Swiss Network for International Studies (SNIS)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Keywords
- climate-induced migration, environmental change perception, migration decisions, drought, floods, hurricanes, Vietnam
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