BACKGROUND Despite an increase in scholarly and policy interest regarding the impacts of
environmental change on migration, empirical knowledge in the field remains varied, patchy …

Climate change adaptation needs, as well as the capacity to adapt, are unequally distributed
around the world. Global models that assess the impacts of climate change and policy …

In seeking to understand how future societies will be affected by climate change we cannot
simply assume they will be identical to those of today, because climate and societies are …

Despite the lack of robust empirical evidence, a growing number of media reports attempt to
link climate change to the ongoing violent conflicts in Syria and other parts of the world, as …

This study aims at understanding the role of education in promoting disaster preparedness.
Strengthening resilience to climate-related hazards is an urgent target of Goal 13 of the …

The impact of climate change on migration has gained both academic and public interest in
recent years. Here we employ a meta-analysis approach to synthesize the evidence from 30 …

The collection of articles in this Special Feature is part of a larger project on “Forecasting
Societies' Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change”(an Advanced Grant of the European …

Public support is fundamental in scaling up actions to limit global warming. Here, we
analyse how the experience of climate extremes influences people's environmental attitudes …

In this paper we investigate how well residents of the Andaman coast in Phang Nga
province, Thailand, are prepared for earthquakes and tsunami. It is hypothesized that formal …

Over the coming years, enormous amounts of money will likely be spent on adaptation to
climate change. The international community recently made pledges of up to $100 billion …