Household migration as a livelihood adaptation in response to a natural disaster: Nicaragua and Hurricane Mitch

Loebach, Peter

doi:10.1007/s11111-016-0256-9

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“…In a review of the natural disaster and migration literature, Hunter (2005) described a continuum of effects where major events such as massive floods led to the complete relocation of villages while cyclical cyclone-induced floods in places such as Bangladesh elicited only temporary displacements but subsequent returns. In post-Hurricane Mitch Nicaragua, Loebach (2016) did not find differential international migration patterns between areas of high and low storm-related damage.…”

Section: Natural Disasters and Fertilitymentioning

confidence: 56%

“…As mentioned above, research findings on the effect of natural disasters on migration vary by the extent and intensity of the disaster event (Hunter, 2005). The one study that specifically assesses the influence of Hurricane Mitch on Nicaraguan international out-migration did not find a significant effect (Loebach, 2016). Nevertheless, to explore the possibility of differential fertility among women remaining and dropping out of the study, further precipitation and fertility comparisons between women retained and lost to follow-up for the 2001 and 2005 data panels are presented in columns two and three and five and six of Table 2, respectively.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Fertility after natural disaster: Hurricane Mitch in Nicaragua

Davis

2017

Popul Environ

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This investigation evaluates the effect of Hurricane Mitch on women’s reproductive outcomes throughout Nicaragua. This research aim is achieved by analyzing a unique Nicaraguan Living Standards Measurement Study panel dataset that tracks women’s fertility immediately before and at two time points after Hurricane Mitch, combined with satellite-derived municipality-level precipitation data for the 10-day storm period. Results show higher odds of post-disaster fertility in municipalities receiving higher precipitation levels in the immediate post-Hurricane Mitch period. However, fertility normalizes between disaster and non-disaster areas four to six years after the storm. These findings suggest that the disruptive effects of a natural disaster such as Hurricane Mitch can have an initial stimulative effect on fertility but the effect is ephemeral.

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Section: Natural Disasters and Fertilitymentioning

confidence: 56%

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Fertility after natural disaster: Hurricane Mitch in Nicaragua

Davis

2017

Popul Environ

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“…For example, temporary and permanent migration responding to rainfall conditions in Burkina Faso has been analyzed by Henry et al (2004). Loebach (2016) examines the migration response in Nicaragua to Hurricane Mitch. Massey et al (2010) estimate relationships between out-migration and environmental pressures such as firewood scarcity, declining agricultural productivity, and declining land cover.…”

Section: Climate and Migrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Climigration? Population and climate change in Arctic Alaska

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Residents of towns and villages in Arctic Alaska live on “the front line of climate change.” Some communities face immediate threats from erosion and flooding associated with thawing permafrost, increasing river flows, and reduced sea ice protection of shorelines. The term climigration, referring to migration caused by climate change, originally was coined for these places. Although initial applications emphasized the need for government relocation policies, it has elsewhere been applied more broadly to encompass unplanned migration as well. Some historical movements have been attributed to climate change, but closer study tends to find multiple causes, making it difficult to quantify the climate contribution. Clearer attribution might come from comparisons of migration rates among places that are similar in most respects, apart from known climatic impacts. We apply this approach using annual 1990–2014 time series on 43 Arctic Alaska towns and villages. Within-community time plots show no indication of enhanced out-migration from the most at-risk communities. More formally, there is no significant difference between net migration rates of at-risk and other places, testing several alternative classifications. Although climigration is not detectable to date, growing risks make either planned or unplanned movements unavoidable in the near future.

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“…Reuveny [30] argues that whereas some people adapt to problems by reducing impacts or repairing the damage as a short-term solution, others do nothing. 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].…”

Section: Adaptation and Adaptive Capacity To Disastersmentioning

confidence: 99%

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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Household migration as a livelihood adaptation in response to a natural disaster: Nicaragua and Hurricane Mitch

Cited by 32 publications

References 61 publications

Fertility after natural disaster: Hurricane Mitch in Nicaragua

Fertility after natural disaster: Hurricane Mitch in Nicaragua

Climigration? Population and climate change in Arctic Alaska

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

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