Unveiling hidden migration and mobility patterns in climate stressed regions: A longitudinal study of six million anonymous mobile phone users in Bangladesh

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 38, Issue , 2016, Pages 1-7

  Lu, Xin ^a,b,c   Wrathall, David J ^d   Sundsøy, Pål Roe ^e   Nadiruzzaman, Md ^f,g   Wetter, Erik ^a,h   Iqbal, Asif ^e   Qureshi, Taimur ^e   Tatem, Andrew ^a,b,i   Canright, Geoffrey ^e   Engø Monsen, Kenth ^e   Bengtsson, Linus ^a,b  

^a FLOWMINDER FOUNDATION   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e TELENOR RESEARCH   (Norway)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^g International Centre for Climate Change and Development   (Bangladesh)

^h STOCKHOLM SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Sweden)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Bangladesh; Climate change; Disaster; Migration; Mobile data

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA SET; DISASTER; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; LONGITUDINAL GRADIENT; MIGRATION; MOBILE COMMUNICATION; MOBILITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

BANGLADESH;

EID: 84958958369     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2016.02.002     Document Type: Article

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