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Title: Unequal avoidance: Disparities in smoke-induced out-migration

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Publication Year: 2022

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Abstract: Organisms reduce risk exposure through short-term avoidance-flight. However, this flight strategy may not be equally accessible throughout a population. We combine cellphone movements, satellite-based wildfire smoke plumes, and Census data to document substantial heterogene-ity/inequity in communities' tendencies to out-migrate to avoid smoke. Higher-income and whiter populations travel out of their counties at significantly higher rates during smoke events. These results suggest that the same populations who face social and environmental injustice on many other measures are less able to avoid wildfire smoke-underscoring equity concerns for wildfire damages and climate adaptation.

Url: https://edrub.in/Papers/draft-smoke.pdf

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Authors: Steven Holloway, M; Rubin, Edward

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Topics: Migration and Immigration, Natural Resource Management

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