[MCN] I have the pdf: Refugees from sea level face barriers to inland relocation

[Lance Olsen]

In the year 2100, 2 billion people -- about one-fifth of the world's population -- could become climate change refugees due to rising ocean levels. Those who once lived on coastlines will face displacement and resettlement bottlenecks as they seek habitable places inland, according to Cornell University research.

JOURNAL
Land Use Policy
 <https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-06/cu-rsc062617.php>http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264837715301812 <http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264837715301812>

Excerpt
"We're going to have more people on less land and sooner that we think," said lead author Charles Geisler, professor emeritus of development sociology at Cornell. "The future rise in global mean sea level probably won't be gradual. Yet few policy makers are taking stock of the significant barriers to entry that coastal climate refugees, like other refugees, will encounter when they migrate to higher ground.”

“… we identify principal inland impediments to relocation and provide preliminary estimates of their toll on inland resettlement space."
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