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Recent reports suggest that climate change, and in particular sea level rise, may be occurring faster than earlier anticipated.1 This has increased policy and public discussions as to climate change’s likely impacts on population movements, both internal and international. Traditional understandings of migration fall increasingly short of integrating the panoply of reasons why people now decide to move.
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Hunter, L. (2013). Climate Change Migration Often Short-Distance and Circular. In: Vital Signs. Vital Signs, vol 20. Island Press, Washington, DC. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-457-4_26
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