Migration and global environmental change: Future challenges and opportunities

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Posted on: 21 October 2011
By: mackene
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The Government’s Foresight project commissioned this project in October 2009 to consider the issues of human migration and global environmental change over the next 50 years. The final report, which received technical direction from a group of six leading experts, chaired by Professor Richard Black (University of Sussex), represents the culmination of two years work involving over 350 experts from 30 countries from a diverse range of disciplines. The report identifies a wide range of issues including the management of ‘trapped’ populations who are unable to move; and the implications of people being as likely to move towards areas of environmental risk as they are to move away from such areas. However, importantly, it concludes that migration may not be just part of the ‘problem’ but can also be part of the solution to managing global environmental change, representing a form of adaptation and contributing to long-term resilience. All the reports and the evidence reviews which formed the basis of the evidence base commissioned by Foresight are available to download.

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