Forecasting Australia’s disaster migration future

2 Oct 2024
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A multi-disciplinary University of Queensland project aims to quantify how many Australians will be forced to relocate because of climate change disaster scenarios in the next 25 years.

Dr Aude Bernard from UQ’s School of the Environment says current population projections based on fertility, mortality and migration don’t take into account how people will respond to more intense and frequent natural disasters.

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