The NOWYOUKNOW project

Environmental issues

 

The displacement of populations because of environmental changes is not a new phenomenon: in the course of human history people have often moved to find a better place where they could live.

But now the temperature increase is causing a strong impact on the lives of people around the world.

Here is a detailed list of the disasters that cause people to migrate:

 

• shoreline erosion, coastal flooding and severe drought,

• desertification, lack of water, salination of irrigated lands and the depletion of bio-diversity,

• storms, floods, and heat and cold
  waves,

• coastlines, flood-lines and steep
  slopes.