Strengthening the resilience of societies to extreme weather events is an urgent and critical
priority around the world. Extreme weather often causes population displacement that …

What explains human consequences of weather-related disaster? Here, we explore how
core socioeconomic, political, and security conditions shape flood-induced displacement …

Large, catastrophic floods intensify environmental scarcity and can lead to mass
displacement from affected areas. The sudden and mass influx of migrants could increase …

Climate change is already forcing millions of people from their land and homes, and putting
many more at risk of displacement in the future. Supercharged storms, more intense and …

Flooding is one of the most common natural hazards, causing disastrous impacts worldwide.
Stress-testing the global human-Earth system to understand the sensitivity of floodplains and …

Every year, millions of people around the world are being displaced from their homes due to
climate-related disasters. River flooding is responsible for a large part of this displacement …

There is growing international concern at the rise in the severity of impact and frequency of
extreme environmental events, potentially as a manifestation of global environmental …

The 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 …

In this paper, we study the effect of displacement of population into cities on urban conflict in
developing countries. To do so, we construct a novel measure of exposure to floods, using …

Cities have historically developed close to rivers and coasts, increasing human exposure to
flooding. That exposure is exacerbated by changes in climate and population, and by urban …