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      Climigration: How to Plan Climate Migration by Learning from History?

      Global Environment
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          Climate change migration, climigration, has occurred through the ages, but with anthropogenic climate change it is predicted to swell. A Special Issue of this journal has earlier discussed environmental change related migration in history. This paper takes a complementary approach by studying other migratory movements in history and applying their lessons to plan climigration. Examples of six historically documented phenomena are investigated: mass migration, refuge seeking, evacuation, exile, slave trade and colonialism. These are explored in relation to the most inhabitable climigration destinations: the northern parts of the United States, Canada, the Nordic countries, Northern European Russia and Siberia. The purpose of this research is to help governments and global organisations to turn desperate, chaotic clirefuge-seeking into orderly, purposeful climigration, so that the migrants maintain their cultural identities, and, with the local inhabitants of the destination areas, build economically, socially, culturally and environmentally sustainable communities.

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          Journal
          Global Environment
          glb environ
          White Horse Press
          1973-3739
          October 01 2015
          October 01 2015
          : 8
          : 2
          : 410-445
          Article
          10.3197/ge.2015.080207
          f07d44b4-a5f5-4b6d-b16a-5a57a18e304e
          © 2015
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