{"id":2112,"date":"2014-06-23T14:39:45","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T19:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=2112"},"modified":"2014-06-24T09:53:24","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T14:53:24","slug":"climate-change-effects-and-human-migration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/climate-change-effects-and-human-migration\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate change effects and human migration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Long-term changes in climate have a greater impact on human migration than sudden natural disasters, a new study shows. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Authors tracked 7,185 households in Indonesia between 1993 and 2007, focusing on agricultural regions. They found that when average annual air temperatures exceeded 25 \u00b0C, households were more likely to migrate permanently for economic reasons. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Natural disasters (landslides, earthquakes, floods, volcanic eruptions) had either no effects or very small effects on permanent migration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nmeth\/journal\/vaop\/ncurrent\/full\/nmeth.3000.html\" target=\"_blank\">Original research paper<\/a><\/span>\u00a0published in the\u00a0<em>Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (U.S.A.)<span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/em>on\u00a0<strong>June\u00a023, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><a style=\"color: #1155cc;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.princeton.edu\/step\/people\/researchers\/pratikshya-bohra-misha\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pratikshya Bohra-Mishra<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">, Princeton University, U.S.A.<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long-term changes in climate have a greater impact on human migration than sudden natural disasters, a new study shows. Authors tracked 7,185 households in Indonesia between 1993 and 2007, focusing on agricultural regions. They found that when average annual air temperatures exceeded 25 \u00b0C, households were more likely to migrate permanently for economic reasons. Natural [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[31,215,1830,1444,1831],"class_list":["post-2112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-climate-change","tag-environment","tag-human","tag-migration","tag-natural-disaster"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-y4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2112"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2116,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2112\/revisions\/2116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}