Grounding Big Data on Climate-Induced Human MobilityFootnote^*

* We thank Freek Duynstee, Shoaib Hasnat Sarzil, Hamidul Huq, Md. Nadiruzzaman and the people from AVAS and Coast Trust for their valuable support in making the fieldwork possible. We thank Simon Bush and Jaap Kwadijk for feedback on earlier versions, and Gerben Hagenaars for help with making figure 2. The research was supported by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research’s VENI grant on ‘Environmentally-related migration in the digital age’ (grant number 451-16-030), and by the Deltares Strategic Research Fund.

[Corrections added on April 23, 2019, after first online publication: Missing Acknowledgments section has been included.]

DR. INGRID BOAS is an assistant professor at the Environmental Policy Group of Wageningen University—6706KN, Wageningen, the Netherlands; [[email protected]]. RUBEN DAHM is a senior researcher at the Department of Catchment and Urban Hydrology of Deltares—2600MH, Delft, the Netherlands; [[email protected]]. DR. DAVID WRATHALL is an assistant professor at the College of Earth, Oceans and Atmospheric Sciences of Oregon State University — Corvallis, Oregon 97331-5503, USA; [[email protected]].

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