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Unveiling hidden migration and mobility patterns in climate stressed regions

author(s) Lu, X. - Wrathall, D.J.. - Sundsoy, P. Roe.
from UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO)
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  • Southern Asia
  • Asia
  • World
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Lu, X., Wrathall, D.J., Sundsoy, P.Roe, Nadiruzzaman, M., Wetter, E., Iqbal, A., Qureshi, T., Tatem, A., Canright, G., Bengtsson, L., Engo-Monsen, K., Unveiling hidden migration and mobility patterns in climate stressed regions: A longitudinal study of six million anonymous mobile phone users in Bangladesh, Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions, vol.38, pp.1-7, 2016

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Abstract

Climate change is likely to drive migration from environmentally stressed areas. However quantifying short and long-term movements across large areas is challenging due to difficulties in the collection of highly spatially and temporally resolved human mobility data. In this study we use 2 datasets of individual mobility trajectories from six million mobile phone users in Bangladesh over 3 months and 2 years respectively

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