"Katrina entailed a massive population displacement that basically emptied out the city," she added.
This game addresses how droughts and rising sea levels make large portions of the United States increasingly uninhabitable while massive population displacement has forced millions of people into migrant camps across the country known as RETREATs.
Kelemen has done a lot of interesting work on possible ways to capture carbon dioxide from air (none being easy or cheap): "We already know it is too late to reverse the planet's transformation, and we know what is going to happen next – superstorms, super-droughts, super-pandemics, massive population displacement, water scarcity, desertification and all the rest.
We already know it's too late to reverse the planet's transformation, and we know what is going to happen next — namely more of the same, just worse: superstorms, super-droughts, super-pandemics, massive population displacement, water scarcity, desertification and all the rest.
2000 September - Start of incursions by rebels in Guinea's border regions with Liberia and Sierra Leone which eventually claim more than 1,000 lives and cause massive population displacement.
Bangladesh, referred to as the "ground zero of climate change," is already experiencing severe flooding, destruction of agricultural land, and massive population displacement.
It also led to massive population displacements; the exodus of Christian, Jewish, and Muslim refugees in various directions; and the collapse of the fragile cosmopolitanism that once characterized parts of the Ottoman Empire, especially its port cities.
CDRs have been used by digital humanitarians during various crises (such as the non-profit FlowMinder's (Flowminder) work with anonymous mobile operator data during the Haiti earthquake to follow the massive population displacements) to not only point out the current locations of populations, but also predict their future trajectory (Bengtsson et al. 2011).
Climate change of that scale will cause enormous resource wars, over water, arable land, and massive population displacements.
This conflict caused massive population displacements in rural areas of Kosovo.
Escalating violence and massive population displacements have intensified the ongoing crisis in Iraq.
