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Environmental disasters, migration and displacement. Insights and developments from L’Aquila's case

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  • Ambrosetti, Elena
  • Petrillo, Enza Roberta

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This paper analyses the environmentally-induced migration and displacement resulting from L’Aquila's earthquake of 2009. After a general critical overview of the social science literature on this topic, the main changes in the migration system are analysed looking at the roots and trajectories of the forced human displacement that followed the earthquake, and reflecting on the challenges related to post-earthquake demographic movements and post-disaster resettlement. Through the analysis of the pre disaster (2002–2008) and recovery period (2009–2013) data, this paper offers a general model of how environmental disaster might affect migration and displacement and suggests the main challenges related to the post-disaster governance. Relying on ISTAT data on internal migration in Italy this paper argues that the post-seismic recovery period is characterized by a strong increase of out-flows from L’Aquila to other provinces, within the Abruzzo region and outside it, in particular toward the closest regions (Latium, Campania).

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  • Ambrosetti, Elena & Petrillo, Enza Roberta, 2016. "Environmental disasters, migration and displacement. Insights and developments from L’Aquila's case," Environmental Science & Policy, Elsevier, vol. 56(C), pages 80-88.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:enscpo:v:56:y:2016:i:c:p:80-88
    DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2015.11.002
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    1. Jasmin Gröschl & Thomas Steinwachs, 2017. "Do Natural Hazards Cause International Migration?," CESifo Economic Studies, CESifo Group, vol. 63(4), pages 445-480.
    2. Antonio Mannella & Marco Di Ludovico & Antonio Sabino & Andrea Prota & Mauro Dolce & Gaetano Manfredi, 2017. "Analysis of the Population Assistance and Returning Home in the Reconstruction Process of the 2009 L’Aquila Earthquake," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 9(8), pages 1-20, August.
    3. Thomas Steinwachs, 2019. "Geography Matters: Spatial Dimensions of Trade, Migration and Growth," ifo Beiträge zur Wirtschaftsforschung, ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, number 81.
    4. Li, Yunmeng, 2024. "Do natural disaster affect rural labor migration? Evidence from the Wenchuan earthquake in China," Economic Analysis and Policy, Elsevier, vol. 81(C), pages 996-1006.

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