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Human mobility, natural resources and sustainability: A review and research gap analysis
Zickgraf, Caroline; Ali, Saleem H.; Clifford, Martin et al.
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Keywords :
Natural Resources; Human Mobility; Migration; Displacement; Immobility; Environmental Migration; Socio-ecological systems
Abstract :
[en] Pressures on natural resources, such as from environmental change, have influenced the global human mobility landscape. In this article, we review the scientific evidence on the interlinkages between natural resources, human migration and sustainabilityAQ1. Drawing on a review of the existing literature in combination with the authors’ research experience, we consider a range of conceptual perspectives and empirical studies covered in the literature since the turn of the millenniumAQ2. Our analysis considers the broad mobility spectrum—from adaptive migration to forced displacement and immobility. Climate change both acts as a natural resource threat in this context as well as having the potential to influence mobility drivers, which, in turn, can influence natural resource availability. The review aims to provide scholars of sustainability science with a coherent curation of the research thus far on the topic for charting a way forward for more constructive and original investigations. To overcome scientific gaps identified, finally we suggest that the multiplicity of linkages and feedbacks between natural resources and migration across different spatial, temporal and social scales lends itself to a complex adaptive (sub)system (CAS) framing within larger socio-ecological systems. As a CAS, the outcomes of migration and natural resources linkages are highly non-linear and can be emergent: the sustainable management of them, therefore, requires flexible, robust and equitable approaches.
Disciplines :
Human geography & demography
Author, co-author :
Zickgraf, Caroline  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de géographie > Service de géographie rurale (LAPLEC)
Ali, Saleem H.
Clifford, Martin
Djalante, Riyanti
Kniveton, Dominic
Brown, Oli
Ayeb-Karlsson, Sonja
Language :
English
Title :
Human mobility, natural resources and sustainability: A review and research gap analysis
Publication date :
In press
Journal title :
Sustainability Science
ISSN :
1862-4065
eISSN :
1862-4057
Publisher :
Springer, Tokyo, Germany
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
Funders :
UNEP - United Nations Environment Programme [KE]
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