Assessing human habitability and migration.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Horton, Radley M.; de Sherbinin, Alex; Wrathall, David; Oppenheimer, Michael
- Source
- Science. 6/18/2021, Vol. 372 Issue 6548, p1279-1283. 5p. 2 Color Photographs.
- Subject
- *HUMAN settlements
*CLIMATE change
*HUMAN migrations
*PHYSICAL sciences
*SOCIAL sciences
*BIOLOGICAL adaptation
*SOCIAL context
- Language
- ISSN
- 0036-8075
The article explores how habitability loss is as an important dimension of climate risk assessment with complex linkages to migration, and approaches that apply quantitative models using uniform methodologies of regional scales. Topics include privileging physical sciences over social science understandings of local vulnerability and adaptive capacity; and migration with adaptation responses with climate determinism minimizes potential for human agency to find creative social contexts.