WP1 analyses the intersections between Socio-Ecological Systems, Climate Impacts and Tipping Points to investigate how they mutually influence each other and create social tipping points that induce migration and displacement in a non-linear fashion.
WP1 will build a conceptual model of the interactions between tipping points, Socio-Ecological systems and climate change. This conceptual model will guide all subsequent stages of WP1 as well as inform the work of the HABITABLE project as a whole. WP1 also leads the longitudinal survey – one of HABITABLE’s primary research methods – which will trace migrants from origin to destination places, collecting data on the characteristics of the socio-ecological system, the scale of climate-related changes to it, and the rate of onset in which these changes which impacts the rate of progression of tipping points. Complementing the survey data with in-depth qualitative methods, WP1 will formulate coefficients on the sensitivity of tipping points in migration behaviour under climate change which will feed the predictive model (to be formulated in WP3).
HABITABLE aims to significantly advance our understanding of the current interlinkages between climate impacts and migration and displacement patterns, in order to better anticipate their future evolutions.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 869395. The content reflects only the authors’ views, and the European Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.
