ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates how economic as well as climate- and environment-related drivers work together in influencing migratory movements. It explores ambiguities involved in people's attribution of climate- and environment-related factors to their migration decisions. The chapter utilises an event history analysis approach, to build a main logit model and a set of supplementary models to understand the dynamics of climate- and environment-related migration. It defines the methods used for quantitative analysis. The chapter looks at the dataset and its characteristics. It analyses how movements – within and outside the district of origin – are influenced by various climatic and environmental experiences; and how migration trends differ when different socio-economic parameters are taken into account. Among the climatic and environmental variables, experiences of drought and cyclone tend to positively influence migration outside the district – and riverbank and coastal erosion negatively. The chapter illustrates the migration trends in the separate models for men and women.
