Adaptation and resilience in the climate-migration-resource nexus

Abstract

The complex connections (nexus) between climate change, migration and natural resources involve multiple and mutually enforcing linkages in an integrative framework of human-environment interactions. Compound risks can multiply stressors beyond tipping points through cascading events, affecting vulnerable resource infrastructures in water, food and energy relevant for human security, social livelihood and mobility. While various studies have analysed the negative nexus of problems, crises and conflicts, more research is needed on the transformation to a positive nexus of interconnected solutions and synergies in adaptive governance and resilient pathways from local to global levels. Negative and positive nexus interactions are highlighted in selected regional climate hot spots.