Environmental Stressors and Migration: Evidence from Vietnam

Koubi, Vally; Spilker, Gabriele; Schaffer, Lena Maria; Bernauer, Thomas

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2015.11.016

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“…A fourth concern relates to temperature-induced migration and unobserved farmer ability. Extensive literature has addressed how climate change and environmental stressors affect migration (Bohra-Mishra et al, 2014;Millock, 2015;Koubi et al, 2016;Dallmann and Millock, 2017). A relevant study is Bohra- Mishra et al (2014), which looks at temperature-induced migration and finds that temperatures over 25 C can lead to outmigration.…”

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Can farmers adapt to higher temperatures? Evidence from India

Taraz

2018

World Development

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Projections suggest that the damages from climate change will be substantial for developing countries. Understanding the ability of households in these countries to adapt to climate change is critical in order to determine the magnitude of the potential damages. In this paper, I investigate the ability of farmers in India to adapt to higher temperatures. I use a methodology that exploits short-term weather fluctuations as well as spatial variation in long-run climate. Specifically, I estimate how damaging high temperatures are for districts that experience high temperatures more or less frequently. I find that the losses from high temperatures are lower in heat-prone districts, a result that is consistent with adaptation. However, while adaptation appears to be modestly effective for moderate levels of heat, my results suggest that adaptation to extreme heat is much more difficult. Extremely high temperatures do grave damage to crops, even in places that experience these temperature extremes regularly. The persistence of negative impacts of high temperatures, even in areas that experience high temperatures frequently, underscores the need for development policies that emphasize risk mitigation and explicitly account for climate-change-related risks.JEL Classification: O1, O3, Q1, Q5

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Section: Study Limitationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Can farmers adapt to higher temperatures? Evidence from India

Taraz

2018

World Development

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“…Migration is one such activity. Indeed, a number of qualitative, quantitative and synthesis studies suggest that migration can be an effective form of adaptation to climate change (Barnett & Webber, ; Foresight, ; Hunter, Luna, & Norton, ; Koubi, Spilker, Schaffer, & Bernauer, ; McLeman & Smit, ; Tacoli, ). Bangladesh is a country with high levels of internal and external migration (Afsar, ; Gardner, ), yet the major policy concern to date is not how to mobilize migration as a form of adaptation, but whether climate change will increase climatic variability and/or the frequency of extreme events, thus adding to migration flows (Black et al., ).…”

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Climate‐influenced migration in Bangladesh: The need for a policy realignment

Martin

Kang

Billah

et al. 2017

Development Policy Review

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Recent research into migration in Bangladesh has highlighted that people migrate for better livelihoods, not necessarily in response to climatic stresses and shocks. If facilitated appropriately, internal and international migration can help build adaptive capacity to future environmental and climatic hazards. In this framing, migration happens in the context of a growing city-centred economy that promotes remittances to villages. However, a textual analysis of current and recent policies concerning climate change, development and poverty alleviation, and disaster management shows that the economic and adaptive roles of internal migration are often not included in policy framing. We argue that if migration works as a positive step towards adaptation, then the key challenge is to align the policies with this new understanding.

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“…Yet others respond to catastrophes by moving away [31]. However, for reasons related to economic and social relationships, most affected people are reluctant to move [32] [33]. Thus, our research focus was on households that wanted or needed to stay in these areas and thus did not consider relocation.…”

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Living in a Bottomless Pit: Households’ Responses to Land Subsidence, an Example from Indonesia

Saputra¹,

Spit²,

Zoomers³

2019

JEP

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Land subsidence has severe physical and economic implications for both areas and people. Numerous scholars have shown that land subsidence has had massive impacts at global, national and regional levels, and that the impacts were usually responded to by the government. However, little attention has been paid to what land subsidence means to people's daily lives and how much it costs them. To fill that gap, this article draws on empirical research carried out in three areas in Indonesia to provide a better understanding of what land subsidence means to households, and how they respond to the consequences and how much it costs them to do so. An analysis of a survey of 330 households shows that they have been suffering from various severities of impacts of land subsidence for an extended period. Whereas some of the households respond to the impacts by making small preparations or adapting to the damages, others can do nothing due to a lack of money and their continuously declining earning capacity. Thus, the affected households are effectively throwing money into a bottomless pit. We argue that these households must escape the vicious circle caused by land subsidence by increasing their income capacity or even abandoning the affected areas.

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Environmental Stressors and Migration: Evidence from Vietnam

Cited by 119 publications

References 41 publications

Can farmers adapt to higher temperatures? Evidence from India

Can farmers adapt to higher temperatures? Evidence from India

Climate‐influenced migration in Bangladesh: The need for a policy realignment

Living in a Bottomless Pit: Households’ Responses to Land Subsidence, an Example from Indonesia

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