ABSTRACT
Human mobility is affected by changing ecosystems. The most significant and successful migrations of human history have been linked to changes in the environment, including migrations into North America (Bar-Yosef and Belfer-Cohen 2001; Larick and Ciochon 1996; Potts 1998) and the earliest migrations out of Africa (Erlandson, Moss, and Des Lauriers 2008; Kelly and Todd, 1988). Indeed, mobility scholars argue that the entirety of human history can be viewed as a history of mobility (Cresswell 2006; Sheller and Urry 2006; Urry 2007), and mobility is exercised through societies’ interactions and changing interactions with one another and with place. It is therefore not surprising that as local climates and ecosystems change in response to the short- and long-term outcomes of greenhouse gas emissions and anthropogenic-induced warming, people will migrate.
