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2. Flocking to fire: how climate and natural hazards shape human migration across the United States
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Clark, Mahalia B. (author), Nkonya, Ephraim (author), and Galford, Gillian L. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-12-08
- Published:
- Switzerland: Frontiers Media S.A.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12963
- Journal Title:
- Frontiers in Human Dynamics
- Journal Title Details:
- V.4
- Notes:
- 20 pages, As global climate change progresses, the United States (US) is expected to experience warmer temperatures as well as more frequent and severe extreme weather events, including heat waves, hurricanes, and wildfires. Each year, these events cost dozens of lives and do billions of dollars' worth of damage, but there has been limited research on how they influence human decisions about migration. Are people moving toward or away from areas most at risk from these climate threats? Here, we examine recent (2010–2020) trends in human migration across the US in relation to features of the natural landscape and climate, as well as frequencies of various natural hazards. Controlling for socioeconomic and environmental factors, we found that people have moved away from areas most affected by heat waves and hurricanes, but toward areas most affected by wildfires. This relationship may suggest that, for many, the dangers of wildfires do not yet outweigh the perceived benefits of life in fire-prone areas. We also found that people have been moving toward metropolitan areas with relatively hot summers, a dangerous public health trend if mean and maximum temperatures continue to rise, as projected in most climate scenarios. These results have implications for policymakers and planners as they prepare strategies to mitigate climate change and natural hazards in areas attracting migrants.
3. Rural ruins in America's climate change story: photojournalism, perception, and agency in Shishmaref, Alaska
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Herrmann, Victoria Stephanie (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019
- Published:
- USA: Taylor & Francis
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 25 Document Number: D10550
- Journal Title:
- Annals of the American Association of Geographers
- Journal Title Details:
- 109(3) : 857-874
- Notes:
- 19 pages., via online journal., This article provides a visual analysis of a set of peopleless photographs taken in 2006 of a falling home erosion in the village of Shishmaref, Alaska, that have been widely circulated in reporting about the relocation of the village due to climate change. It asks whether the visual contract between spectator and absent climate change victim extends beyond an empathetic response to action toward restoring the lost home. The article explores the relationship of contemporary scholarship on postmodern ruination in U.S. Rust Belt cities and the Shishmaref fallen home photograph as a means to analyze the work done by rural ruination.
4. Visual climate change communication: from iconography to locally framed 3D visualization
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Schroth, Olaf (author), Angel, Jeannette (author), Sheppard, Stephen (author), and Dulic, Aleksandra (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2014-04-28
- Published:
- International: Taylor & Francis Group Ltd., 2 Park Square Oxford OX14 4RN United Kingdom
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 166 Document Number: D08506
- Journal Title:
- Environmental Communication
- Journal Title Details:
- 8 (4): 413-432