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DOI	10.1016/j.apgeog.2024.103283
	Mapping socio-environmental vulnerability to assess rural migration in Ghana
	Schuermann, Alina; Kleemann, Janina; Teucher, Mike; Conrad, Christopher
发表日期	2024
ISSN	0143-6228
EISSN	1873-7730
起始页码	167
卷号	167
英文摘要	Rural communities in Ghana, dependent on agriculture and lacking resources and infrastructure, are highly vulnerable to climate and environmental change. Internal migration is often considered as a strategy to mitigate local livelihood constraints. Understanding the challenges of rural communities requires knowledge of local conditions. As only few studies have mapped vulnerable areas in the context of migration in Ghana at a spatially explicit and nationwide level, this study provides a geodata-based examination of how rural areas in Ghana are vulnerable to multiple, co-occurring socio-economic and environmental factors influencing migration. A multifactorial and expert-based weighted overlay analysis was applied, integrating diverse data sources including climate, remote sensing, and recent census data from Ghana. Bivariate maps visualize vulnerable areas where a high impact of the factors coincides with a high rural population density. High levels of factor impact are observed in the northern regions and coastal areas of Ghana. Relatively low impact is found in more central parts of the country. The results align with current net migration rates, confirming the applicability of our method for assessing rural internal migration. This method enhances the understanding of migration dynamics in Ghana and emphasizes the role of spatial data in migration studies.
英文关键词	Environmental change; Geodata integration; Migration patterns; Mixed-methods; Rural-urban migration; Weighted overlay analysis
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Geography
WOS类目	Geography
WOS记录号	WOS:001238094400001
来源期刊	APPLIED GEOGRAPHY
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/295426
作者单位	Martin Luther University Halle Wittenberg; Martin Luther University Halle Wittenberg
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Schuermann, Alina,Kleemann, Janina,Teucher, Mike,et al. Mapping socio-environmental vulnerability to assess rural migration in Ghana[J],2024,167.
APA	Schuermann, Alina,Kleemann, Janina,Teucher, Mike,&Conrad, Christopher.(2024).Mapping socio-environmental vulnerability to assess rural migration in Ghana.APPLIED GEOGRAPHY,167.
MLA	Schuermann, Alina,et al."Mapping socio-environmental vulnerability to assess rural migration in Ghana".APPLIED GEOGRAPHY 167(2024).