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The drivers of human migration

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Warnings about torrents of forced migrations owing to climate change make headlines. Now research shows that this is an oversimplification.

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  1. Etienne Piguet is in the Institute of Geography, University of Neuchâtel, FLSH, 2000 Neuchâtel, Switzerland,

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Piguet, E. The drivers of human migration. Nature Clim Change 2, 400–401 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate1559

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