Climate Change and Migration in West African Coastal Zones
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Date
2021-11-09
Authors
Mbaye, Ahmadou Aly
Gueye, Adama
Gueye, Fatou
Sarr, Khady Yama
Gueye, Fama
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African Economic Research Consortium
Abstract
Global trends in migration show a predominance of internal over external flows.
The African continent is the world’s most vulnerable region to climate change due
to its higher levels of exposure and its scarcer financial resources for adaptation.
Therefore, climate change presents in Africa some peculiar challenges to livelihoods,
and security. In this paper, we assess the climate-induced migration in African coastal
zones, accounting for many different factors such as conflict, demography, social
networks, economic opportunities, and geographical factors such as the terrain. We
also provide a critical review of major strands of models of climate-induced migration,
namely agent-based models, choice-centred models, gravity model, and household
allocation models. The most used data in climate change analyses are also analyzed.