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Sea level rise induced migration could reshape the US population landscape

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Mathew Hauer, University of Georgia

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IRS-County-to-County-Migration-Data--1990-2013 text/plain 3.3 MB 01/30/2017 11:52:AM

Project Citation: 

Hauer, Mathew. Sea level rise induced migration could reshape the US population landscape. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2017-01-30. https://doi.org/10.3886/E100413V1

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Summary:  View help for Summary Many sea level rise (SLR) assessments focus on populations presently inhabiting vulnerable coastal communities, but to date no studies have attempted to model the destinations of these potentially displaced persons. With millions of potential future migrants in heavily populated coastal communities, SLR scholarship focusing solely on coastal communities characterizes SLR as primarily a coastal issue, obscuring the potential impacts in landlocked communities created by SLR induced displacement. Here I address this issue by merging projected populations at-risk of SLR with migration systems simulations to project future destinations of SLR migrants in the United States (US).

The full draft of my peer reviewed article in Nature Climate Change can be found at . I include the underlying IRS county-to-county migration data for the period 1990-2013, and the county-to-county migration flows assuming adaptation and no-adaptation scenarios under the 1.8m SLR scenario by 2100.






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