Nonlinear permanent migration response to climatic variations but minimal response to disasters

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 27, 2014, Pages 9780-9785

  Bohra Mishra, Pratikshya ^a   Oppenheimer, Michael ^a,b   Hsiang, Solomon M ^c,d  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Environmental migrants; Human response to climate change; Migration and disasters; Statistical

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARTHQUAKE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDONESIA; LANDSLIDE; MIGRATION; NATURAL DISASTER; NORMAL HUMAN; PRECIPITATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; VOLCANO;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL MIGRANTS; HUMAN RESPONSE TO CLIMATE CHANGE; MIGRATION AND DISASTERS; STATISTICAL;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DISASTERS; ECONOMICS; HUMAN MIGRATION; HUMANS; INDONESIA; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PROBABILITY;

EID: 84904016055     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1317166111     Document Type: Article

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