Climate Induced Environmental Stress and International Migration – CESIM

Human migration has been identified as an important response to climate-induced environmental stress. The analysis of the link between climate/weather change and migration is an interesting topic which has been so far under-researched and that deserves an increasing investigation. Moreover, future projections of the expected outflows at the global level have not been produced so far. With the change in climate that current concentrations of greenhouse gas have already committed us to, environmental stress is bound to increase and a quantification of the expected patterns of climate-induced migration is extremely important. 

The project aims at quantifying the effects of climate and weather change on international migration. A global assessment of the vulnerability for both origin and destination countries, expressed in terms of predicted inflows and outflows, will be produced. An important output of the project will be a graphical visualization of spatially-informed projections of bilateral migration.