The Costa Rican experience: extreme weather events partially explain permanent internal migration as an adaptive measure.
A new body of evidence has emerged suggesting that climate is increasing people displacement as an adaptive response to weather related-catastrophes. This research develops a framework to analyze the links between migration and climate change. It also fills in a gap in the existing knowledge about internal migration in Costa Rica and its determinants. Key Points: •Migration is found to increase in response to extreme whether events in the origin canton. •Households respond both to ongoing/recent natural disasters and to past events with lags. •Migration is induced by both population’s characteristics and location-specific attributes.
