People have been moving away from the coastal regions of Bangladesh to avoid the sea-level rise. The new paper by our own Prof. Maurizio Porfiri with Profs. Pietro De Lellis and Manuel Ruiz Marín predicts that this migration will have a cascading effect that will influence up to 1.3 million people across the country by year 2050.
American Geophysical Union: Advancing Space and Earth Science has published a feature about the study, which presents a mathematical model to predict patterns of migration due to climate change.
Read it here.
Read the full article in the latest issue of Earth’s Future “Modeling human migration under environmental change: a case study of the effect of sea level rise in Bangladesh” here.
Image credit: Anna Sawulska and Maurizio Porfiri.