Is climate-driven migration a threat to security?

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dc.creatorLäderach, Peter R.D.
dc.creatorPacillo, Grazia
dc.creatorSchapendonk, Frans
dc.creatorSavelli, Adam
dc.date2021-09-27
dc.date2021-09-27T13:46:58Z
dc.date2021-09-27T13:46:58Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T13:37:33Z
dc.descriptionThe need to understand how migration, climate and (in)security interact is becoming increasingly urgent. Climate change will continue to impact human security in the short- to medium-term, with potentially important consequences for human mobility. Over the past decade, for instance, weather-related events displaced 21.5 million people each year, more than twice as many as displacements caused by conflict and violence (UNHCR, 2021). While we must be careful not to over-securitise discourse around migration, ignoring the potential implications of these trends for both human and national security would be equally irresponsible. To give one example, research shows that for every 100,000 people displaced by floods, the probability of conflict incidence rises by approximately 3% (Ghimire, Ferreira and Dorfman, 2015). Given that flooding drove 10 million people globally from their homes in 2019, and 51% of all disaster-induced displacements between 2008 and 2018 were flood-induced, this threat is far from marginal (IDMC, 2019; IDMC, 2020).
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/115178
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/65268
dc.languageen
dc.publisherCGIAR FOCUS Climate Security
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceLäderach P, Pacillo G, Schapendonk F, Savelli A. 2021. Is climate induced migration a threat to national security?. Rome Italy: CGIAR FOCUS Climate Security.
dc.subjectagriculture
dc.subjectfood security
dc.subjectclimate change
dc.subjectmigration
dc.subjectenvironmental degradation
dc.titleIs climate-driven migration a threat to security?
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