Natural disasters and population mobility in Bangladesh

cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centre
cg.coverage.countryBangladesh
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2BD
cg.coverage.regionSouthern Asia
cg.coverage.regionAsia
cg.creator.identifierValerie Mueller: 0000-0003-1246-2141
cg.identifier.dataurlhttps://doi.org/10.7910/dvn/bwnj8oen
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1115944109
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Development Strategy and Governance Division
cg.identifier.publicationRankA Plus
cg.isijournalISI Journal
cg.issn0027-8424
cg.issn1091-6490
cg.issue16
cg.journalProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
cg.reviewStatusPeer Review
cg.volume109
dc.contributor.authorGray, Clark L.
dc.contributor.authorMueller, Valerie
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-01T13:55:35Zen
dc.date.available2024-10-01T13:55:35Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/153068
dc.titleNatural disasters and population mobility in Bangladeshen
dcterms.abstractThe consequences of environmental change for human migration have gained increasing attention in the context of climate change and recent large-scale natural disasters, but as yet relatively few large-scale and quantitative studies have addressed this issue. We investigate the consequences of climate-related natural disasters for long-term population mobility in rural Bangladesh, a region particularly vulnerable to environmental change, using longitudinal survey data from 1,700 households spanning a 15-y period. Multivariate event history models are used to estimate the effects of flooding and crop failures on local population mobility and long-distance migration while controlling for a large set of potential confounders at various scales. The results indicate that flooding has modest effects on mobility that are most visible at moderate intensities and for women and the poor. However, crop failures unrelated to flooding have strong effects on mobility in which households that are not directly affected but live in severely affected areas are the most likely to move. These results point toward an alternate paradigm of disaster-induced mobility that recognizes the significant barriers to migration for vulnerable households as well their substantial local adaptive capacity.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.available2012-04-02
dcterms.bibliographicCitationGray, Clark L.; Mueller, Valerie 2012. Natural disasters and population mobility in Bangladesh. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) 109(16): 6000-6005en
dcterms.extentpp. 6000-6005
dcterms.issued2012-04-17
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCopyrighted; all rights reserved
dcterms.publisherProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll5/id/3508
dcterms.subjectmigrationen
dcterms.subjectnatural disastersen
dcterms.subjectresilienceen
dcterms.subjectenvironmental migrantsen
dcterms.subjectinternally displaced personsen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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