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Emerging research methods in environmental displacement and forced migration research

Ty Miller, Jessica, Thai Vu, Anvy·2021·Geography Compass
DOI 10.1111/gec3.12558
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Environmental displacement can be defined as forced migration occurring entirely or partly from local environmental restructuring. This includes displacement from sudden environmental events, such as storms, earthquakes, and tsunamis, or from long term changes related to the impacts of climate change, development, conservation‐related residential displacement, and environmental gentrification. Over the past decade, investigating the human impacts of displacement has become an emerging focus within displacement research. The idea of displacement is not only difficult to define but challenging to measure, due in part to a multitude of influences environmental factors have on the ability to stay put. Displacement throughout history has occurred from many factors, including social, political, environmental, and economic. Environmentally related displacement is arguably the most unpredictable form of displacement and is increasingly a problem for both the Global North and the Global South. Geographers have not always focused on these issues, although researchers are increasingly exploring this inherently spatial and temporal problem. A more thorough understanding of environmental displacement is possible by exploring available and relevant interdisciplinary research methods and methodologies used for analyses. This review focuses on literature that links both event‐driven and ongoing change‐driven displacement to environmental change to reveal the patterns across several subfields of displacement research and suggest areas for further development.

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  • Connecting displacement and climate or environmental hazards is complex due to multiple environmental and climatic influences, coarse spatial and temporal resolution of data, and assessment models missing feedbacks among socioeconomic and climate systems.

    “Connecting displacement and climate or environmental hazards is a complex task due to a multitude of environmental and climatic influences that impact the ability to stay in one place, 253 to the relatively coarse spatial and temporal resolution of currently available data sets, 254 and because current assessment models miss the feedbacks among the socioeconomic and climate systems.255”

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Authors
Ty Miller, J., & Thai Vu, A.
Affiliations
  • Department of Earth and Environmental Studies Montclair State University Montclair New Jersey USA
  • Anvy Thai Vu Department of Earth and Environmental Studies Montclair State University Montclair New Jersey USA
ORCID
Ty Miller, Jessica
Venue
Geography Compass
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2021-03-08
Volume
15
Issue
4
ISSN
1749-8198 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1111/gec3.12558
OpenAlex
W3135463101
Cited by
16
References
89
Citations by year
2026: 2 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 2
FWCI
4.50
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor (vor)
Locations
Geography Compass (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Migration and Exile Studies
Keywords
environmental displacement, forced migration, climate-induced displacement, environmental gentrification, displacement measurement, interdisciplinary methodology, Global North and Global South

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