Environmental Change and Migration Between Europe and Its Neighbours

We examine migration by means of literature review and extensive spatial analyses for countries throughout northern, eastern and southern Europe as well as the Mediterranean countries of north Africa. We conduct a spatial analysis of the current environmental state and likely changes as a result of climate change, sea level rise, land use change and land degradation for these areas. These projected changes are then used to better understand the likely impacts on economy, and society and thus the ‘push’ and ‘pull’ factors for environmental migration both within countries (urbanisation and land abandonment) and between countries, in particular between Northern and Southern Europe.