Compound impacts from droughts and structural vulnerability on human mobility

Thalheimer, Lisa, Choquette-Levy, Nicolas and Garip, Filiz, (2022). Compound impacts from droughts and structural vulnerability on human mobility. iScience, 25(12), n/a-n/a

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    Author Thalheimer, Lisa
    Choquette-Levy, Nicolas
    Garip, Filiz
    Title Compound impacts from droughts and structural vulnerability on human mobility
    Appearing in iScience
    Volume 25
    Issue No. 12
    Publication Date 2022-11-23
    Place of Publication Amsterdam
    Publisher Elsevier
    Start page n/a
    End page n/a
    Language eng
    Abstract Extreme dry events already disrupt populations’ ability to migrate. In a warming climate, compound drought events could amplify vulnerability and drive forced migration. Here, we contribute the first multi-method research design on societal impacts from compound drought events. We show how mobility patterns are shaped by the intersection of drought and social vulnerability factors in three drought-prone countries – Madagascar, Nepal, and Mexico. We find that internal migration in agricultural communities in Mexico increased by 14 to 24 basis points from 1991 to 2018 and will prospectively increase by 2 to 15 basis points in Nepal in case of a compound drought event in 2025. We show that consecutive drought events exacerbate structural vulnerabilities, limiting migrants’ adaptation options, including long-range migration. We conclude that the additional social pre-conditions, e.g., social isolation and lack of accurate information, ultimately limit migration as an adaptation option for households vulnerable to compound drought events.
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    Keyword Compound events
    Structural vulnerability
    Copyright Holder The Authors
    Copyright Year 2022
    Copyright type Creative commons
    DOI 10.1016/j.isci.2022.105491
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