Climate change-induced migration: An overview of the debate

Περίληψη

The issue of climate change has risen to be of great concern to the international scientific, among others, community. Among the consequences projected is a large scale human displacement that is anticipated to mainly affect the developing world of the Global South. Nevertheless, the lack of agreement among several members of the scientific community, with regard to definitions and methodologies used, has caused the creation of two main approaches towards the alleged connection of climate change and (forced) human mobility. The first approach supports a mono-causal relation between the two phenomena, while the second sees climate change and environmental factors in general as just possible contributing factors to human mobility.