Capacity and Change in Climate Migrant-Receiving Communities Along the U.S. Gulf: A Three-Case Comparison
Implementing Organization
Urban Institute in cooperation with Enterprise Community Partners, Gulf Coast Center for Law and Policy, RAND Corporation, Texas Southern University, and University of Central Florida
Overview
DWH Project Funding
$2,978,545
Known Leveraged Funding
$0
Funding Organization
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine – Gulf Research Program (NASEM - GRP)
Funding Program
NASEM Gulf Research Program Grants
Details
Project Category
Environmental
Project Actions
Resilience
Targeted Resources
Project Description
Climate change is already driving population migrations, especially along the Gulf Coast. However, the capacity of destination communities to prepare for and integrate people who are displaced by natural disasters and climate change – known as climate migrants – has received little attention. This project will examine communities in Florida, Louisiana, and Texas that are already receiving climate migrants to determine the communities’ capacities to integrate them at the point of migration and the migrants’ effects on housing and employment markets, financial services, health care providers, and social and cultural facilities.
Contact
Carlos MartinNone
gulfgrants@nas.edu
Project Website
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