Authors
Maria Franco Gavonel, William Neil Adger, Ricardo Safra de Campos, Emily Boyd, Edward R Carr, Anita Fábos, Sonja Fransen, Dominique Jolivet, Caroline Zickgraf, Samuel NA Codjoe, Mumuni Abu, Tasneem Siddiqui
Publication date
2021/4/1
Source
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
Volume
49
Pages
98-109
Publisher
Elsevier
Description
Highlights
- Migration has simultaneous offsetting positive and negative effects on sustainability.
- Migration affects sustainability in environmental, social, and economic dimensions.
- Migration contributes to sustainability if it increases well-being and reduces inequality and environmental burden.
- If policies for sustainable development incorporate migration, they yield significant synergistic benefits.
Migration represents a major transformation of the lives of those involved and has been transformative of societies and economies globally. Yet models of sustainability transformations do not effectively incorporate the movement of populations. There is an apparent migration-sustainability paradox: migration plays a role as a driver of unsustainability as part of economic globalisation, yet simultaneously represents a transformative phenomenon and potential force for sustainable development. We propose criteria by which …
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