Susan Martin: Migration a Climate Adaptation Strategy, but Displacement More Dangerous


Mar 25, 2016 | Sean Peoples
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“Migration is a risk management strategy,” says Susan Martin, the Donald G. Herzberg professor of international migration at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, in this week’s podcast. “It’s a way people have coped for millennia when the environment changes.” But climate change is forcing a new calculus on many households and communities who face a dynamic mix of economic, political, demographic, and environmental pressures.