Author Etienne Piguet

Etienne Piguet, a professor at Universite de Neuchatel in Switzerland, published a paper in the Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, Volume 1, Issue 4.

In it, he claims that although many agree that climate change will induce migration, few, if any at all, can prove to what degree. He lays out a typology identifying six research method families: ecological inference based on area characteristics, individual sample surveys, time series, multilevel analysis, agent-based modeling (ABM), and qualitative/ethnographic studies. He also calls for a coordinated international effort to improve the quality

and variety of data that could be used with existing research methods in order to significantly improve our understanding of the migration-environment nexus.

Read the paper in its entirety here.