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Cities have a significant influence on construction and transportation—two of the key contributors to global warming emissions. [8] Moreover, because of processes that create climate conflict and climate refugees , city areas are expected to grow during the next several decades, stressing infrastructure and concentrating more impoverished ...
Climate-induced migration is a highly complex issue which needs to be understood as part of global migration dynamics. Migration typically has multiple causes, and environmental factors are intertwined with other social and economic factors, which themselves can be influenced by environmental changes.
Drivers, processes, and impacts of sinking cities [1]. Sinking cities are urban environments that are in danger of disappearing due to their rapidly changing landscapes.The largest contributors to these cities becoming unlivable are the combined effects of climate change (manifested through sea level rise, intensifying storms, and storm surge), land subsidence, and accelerated urbanization. [2]
More than 21,400 migrants and asylum-seekers have come to New York City since the spring.
This theory of shrinking cities is mainly focused on post-World War II Europe as manufacturing declined in Western Europe and increased in the United States, causing a shift of global economic power to the United States. [13] The result was that Western European industrialization largely ceased, and alternative industries arose. [13]
City officials call the migrants' arrival an inherited issue that they're trying to address. Johnson’s administration has opened over a dozen more shelters since he took office in May .
New York’s surging migrant growth has seen the state’s population tick up between 2023 and 2024, reversing a years-long trend as locals leave the state for cheaper living or warmer weather.
Environmental migrants are people who are forced to leave their home of residency due to sudden or long-term changes to their local or regional environment. These changes compromise their well-being or livelihood, and include increased drought , desertification , sea level rise , and disruption of seasonal weather patterns (such as monsoons [ 1