Environmental changes in developing countries: from moving to trapped populations

Over the last decades, environmental changes driven and/or compounded by population pressures and climate change have dramatically impacted human mobility, including population displacements or migration, especially in developing countries. Slow onset degradation processes (aridification, desertification, wind and water erosion, deforestation, shoreline erosion, etc.) and sudden disasters (extreme climate events such as floods, droughts, storms, heat waves, etc.) have intensified since the 1950s in terms of frequency, intensity and duration, as well as in their socio-economic consequences. In the absence of an international objective to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, global warming and its wide range of negative impacts are not likely to be contained in the future [...]