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Title: Using the Social Vulnerability Index to Forecast Disaster Migration
Citation Type: Working Paper
Publication Year: 2019
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Abstract: This report analyzes disaster-driven internal migration, its effects on residence layout by social vulnerability, and demonstrates a modeling procedure for this task. Since the processes underlying disaster-driven migration may unfold at scales below those in the data, especially in vulnerable areas where these models are especially useful, this report focuses on South Africa, which had key flooding events at urban centers over 15 years before the 2011 census. Since only low spatial resolution census data are obtainable for research, we use universal kriging (UK) with a pre-fit model from the Philippines (which used more detailed data) to estimate social vulnerability in South Africa at a higher spatial resolution. With the UK model, we estimate and reaggregate a social vulnerability index (SVI) from South African provincial to municipal boundaries, then fit a model testing the relationship between internal migration, SVI, and flooding risk within each municipality. Results show that, when controlling for flood risk, within-province migration is inversely related to SVI, while neither SVI nor flooding affect migration between provinces. This is consistent with our hypothesis that the socially vulnerable are less likely to leave flood-prone areas, and over time, a positive spatial correlation emerges between SVI and flood risk.
Url: https://erdc-library.erdc.dren.mil/jspui/bitstream/11681/35433/1/ERDC-CERL TR-19-20.pdf
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Authors: Armstrong, Chandler, M.; Larkin, Lance, L.
Series Title: US Army Corps of Engineers Working Paper Series
Publication Number: ERDC/CERL TR-19-20
Institution: Construction Engineering Research Laboratory
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Data Collections: IPUMS International
Topics: Migration and Immigration, Natural Resource Management, Population Mobility and Spatial Demography
Countries: Philippines, South Africa