Climate impacts on migration in the Arctic North America: existing evidence and research recommendations

Chi, Guangqing; Zhou, Shuai; Mucioki, Megan; Miller, Jessica; Korkut, Ekrem; Howe, Lance; Yin, Junjun; Holen, Davin; Randell, Heather; Akyildiz, Ayse; Halvorsen, Kathleen E.; Fowler, Lara; Ford, James; Tickamyer, Ann

doi:10.1007/s10113-024-02212-9

Reg Environ Change

2024

DOI: 10.1007/s10113-024-02212-9

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Climate impacts on migration in the Arctic North America: existing evidence and research recommendations

Guangqing Chi,

Shuai Zhou,

Megan Mucioki

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Understanding the Impacts of Arctic Climate Change Through the Lens of Political Ecology

Malik,

Ford

2024

WIREs Climate Change

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Climate change is a critical global issue with far‐reaching implications for the environment, society, and economy. Political ecology examines the relationship between political systems, social inequalities, and ecological concerns in relation to climate change. It focuses on how power dynamics, resource allocation, and political decisions influence vulnerability, adaptation, and mitigation efforts, highlighting the intersectionality between politics, ecology, and climate change impacts. Climate change in the Arctic is having profound geopolitical, environmental, and socioeconomic impacts on Indigenous Peoples. However, few, if any, studies have examined these interactions from a political ecology standpoint. Herein, we review and analyze the complex relationships and power dynamics that shape and are shaped by climate change in the Arctic through a political ecology lens, developing an understanding of how political, economic, and social factors interact to drive climate change impacts and responses. We introduce the term Arctic Political Ecology to understand these dynamics. The paper examines the significance of Indigenous knowledge, environmental governance, and Indigenous Peoples' sovereignty in control over productive resources, promoting sustainable practices, and addressing the challenges posed by climate change. We highlight the need for a comprehensive approach that considers the political ecology of climate change in the Arctic to understand the interplay of capitalism, colonialism, and resource exploitation.

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Understanding the Impacts of Arctic Climate Change Through the Lens of Political Ecology

Malik,

Ford

2024

WIREs Climate Change

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Rural–urban migration of Alaska Indigenous peoples: changing patterns and drivers

Berman,

Wang-Cendejas

2024

Ann Reg Sci

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Migration from rural areas to urban population centers has long been associated with modernization; a pattern one might expect to accelerate as advancing climate change degrades rural land-based livelihoods. Does rural–urban migration of arctic Indigenous peoples follow a similar pattern? Has depopulation of rural arctic areas accelerated as climate-driven environmental change has intensified in the rapidly warming arctic? What are the main drivers of mobility, both historically and more recently? We address these questions through a review and synthesis of empirical studies of rural–urban migration of arctic Indigenous peoples using individual records over the past four decades, along with analysis of new data informed by those previous studies. The use of microdata allows us to incorporate variation in individual situations and choices as well as community characteristics that vary across space and time, permitting us to make inferences about factors associated with decisions to move. The evidence shows that rural–urban migration patterns appear largely to have persisted over the decades, but some drivers have changed. Living costs appear to have replaced livelihood opportunities as the dominant driver since 2000. Other changes in decisions to move are complex, and require additional research to understand.

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Climate impacts on migration in the Arctic North America: existing evidence and research recommendations

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Understanding the Impacts of Arctic Climate Change Through the Lens of Political Ecology

Understanding the Impacts of Arctic Climate Change Through the Lens of Political Ecology

Rural–urban migration of Alaska Indigenous peoples: changing patterns and drivers

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