Climate-induced International Migration and Conflicts

Cristina Cattaneo and Valentina Bosetti

CESifo Economic Studies, 2017, vol. 63, issue 4, 500-528

Abstract: Population movements will help people cope with the impacts of climate change. However, large-scale displacements may also produce security risks for receiving areas. If climate change intensifies the process of out-migration, destination countries may face waves of migrants so large and fast that integration becomes increasingly hard. The objective of this article is to empirically estimate if the inflows of climate-induced migrants increase the risk of conflicts in receiving areas. Using data from 1960 to 2000, we show that climate-induced migrants are not an additional determinant of civil conflicts and civil wars in receiving areas.

Keywords: conflict; global warming; emigration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 H56 Q34 Q54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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