Open AccessOn the Regional Rootedness of Population Mobility and Environmental Change
Author(s) -
Félicitas Hillmann,
Ernst Spaan
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
comparative population studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.419
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 1869-8999
pISSN - 1869-8980
DOI - 10.12765/cpos-2017-06
Subject(s) - nexus (standard) , climate change , urbanization , environmental change , geography , economic geography , constitution , environmental planning , population , population growth , environmental resource management , political science , ecology , economic growth , environmental science , sociology , economics , demography , computer science , law , biology , embedded system
This article argues that the interplay of changing environmental conditions in the wake of climate change and dynamic migration systems will lead to even more clearly articulated new regional formations. The way regions perceive the risks of climate change, how they cope with and adapt to these risks and their constitution as resilient entities determines the way migration and mobility take place. We focus on the regional dimensions of climate change and broader related developmental trends such as urbanisation and will highlight this nexus for coastal regions. We present two regional case studies, Keta in Ghana and Semarang in Indonesia. Both cities have experienced floods and related environmental risks throughout their histories. The contrasting analysis of the two cases illustrates that similar environmental challenges may have very different effects on the migratory patterns.