Climate change impact on human (in) mobility: A case study of Jalalaqsi, Hiiraan, Somalia.
Creators: name: Yahye, Ahmed Elmi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Climate change impact on human (in) mobility
subject: Climate Change
subject: Climate change
subject: impact on human (in) mobility

description: Climate mobility refers to the movement of people due to the impacts of climate change, including increased frequency and intensity of natural disasters, sea level rise, and changes in temperature and precipitation patterns. Communities all across the world are becoming more and more impacted by climate change. Droughts and heat waves that are more severe and frequent, extreme weather, and increasing sea levels seriously threaten to human livelihoods, health, and well-being. Through a variety of linked problems, such as their influence on agricultural productivity, food and water security, employment, and conflict, climate change can result in cascading hazards that harm communities. Today, the effects are still being felt. One in three people worldwide endure moderate to severe food insecurity. 194 nations pledged in the Paris Agreement to cut greenhouse gas emissions until net zero emissions to avert future climate consequences. In comparison to preindustrial levels (1850–1900), it is desired to keep global warming considerably below 2 °C, preferably below 1.5 °C. However, given recent increases in global emissions, Earth's warming is anticipated to surpass the 1.5 °C limit by the 2030s (IPCC, 2021). Until the end of the 21st century, global temperatures are predicted to rise by more than 2 °C, even if the pledges made under the Paris Agreement are kept. In the long term, warming from human-caused emissions will have further effects on populations and deteriorate living conditions in many regions of the world. This warming will last for hundreds to millennia (IPCC, 2019). The effects of exceeding the 1.5 °C target are discussed in the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C (SR1.5), emphasizing that even slight temperature changes can have significant effects (IPCC, 2018). It emphasizes that reducing global warming to 1.5 °C as opposed to 2 °C might result in a reduction of up to several hundred million people by 2050 who are both exposed to climate-related hazards and vulnerable to poverty. These regions areexpose to global warming hazards because they are dealing with several economic, social, and political difficulties. The intricate connections between individual and environmental elements that shape people's demands, incentives to relocate, and limits result in climate mobility in this region. As the authors point out, there are a variety of ways


 

that climate change might affect mobility outcomes, such as effects on food and water security, hazards to livelihoods and poverty, and conflicts. Climate mobility is any type of migration that has been caused by climate change and its associated environmental dangers, such as extreme weather occurrences. In connection to climatic stress and risks, it involves a various types of mobility, such as migration, forced displacement, relocations, and evacuations. Displacement is the term for forced activities, frequently brought on by an unexpected disastrous occurrence. Short- term and short-distance movements of this kind are frequent, with many impacted households returning to their original places after the risk has passed. Contrarily, climate migrants are individuals or groups of individuals who are compelled to leave their usual residence for extended periods or permanently due to a sudden or gradual change in the climatic circumstances. If the displaced individuals do not go back to where they were initially displaced, migration may also be the outcome of the first displacement. Last but not least, organized relocations or evacuations are aided modes of transportation that are frequently sponsored by local or federal authorities. Environmental impacts on mobility are not a new phenomenon. Moving away from hostile and dangerous areas has always been a method of survival for people. Recent study has also demonstrated a strong relationship between migratory dynamics and other types of human movement in various regions of the world and changes in the environment and climate.