Dominican Republic - Climate Migrants
The Dominican Republic (DR) is vulnerable to climate change and has a high rate of natural degradation. The DR shows evidence of significant human mobility flows of (i) internal migration, mainly rural to urban; and (ii) international cross-border migration, especially from Haiti. Given this context, the DR is an important place to study migration induced by the impacts of climate change and natural degradation. In this report, climate migration refers to migration that can be attributed largely to the slow-onset impacts of climate change on livelihoods through natural degradation such us shifts in water availability, crop productivity, ecosystem productivity, or to factors such as sea-level rise. This note builds upon previous studies undertaken regarding climate migration in the DR, and combines a quantitative modeling approach with a qualitative case study.
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| Format: | Report biblioteca |
| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC: World Bank
2024-04-29
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| Subjects: | CLIMATE ACTION, SDG 13, MIGRATION, ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, MIGRATION POLICIES AND JOBS, LIFE ON LAND, SDG 15, |
| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099042324124027027/P177440163ced20231b0c11026efc3f6dfa https://hdl.handle.net/10986/41473 |
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| Summary: | The Dominican Republic (DR) is
vulnerable to climate change and has a high rate of natural
degradation. The DR shows evidence of significant human
mobility flows of (i) internal migration, mainly rural to
urban; and (ii) international cross-border migration,
especially from Haiti. Given this context, the DR is an
important place to study migration induced by the impacts of
climate change and natural degradation. In this report,
climate migration refers to migration that can be attributed
largely to the slow-onset impacts of climate change on
livelihoods through natural degradation such us shifts in
water availability, crop productivity, ecosystem
productivity, or to factors such as sea-level rise. This
note builds upon previous studies undertaken regarding
climate migration in the DR, and combines a quantitative
modeling approach with a qualitative case study. |
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