Spatial perspective on environmental migration: Empirical insights from a spatiotemporal approach in the United States, 1970–2010 (by Shuai Zhou)

Background: Despite the growth of environmental migration studies in recent decades, spatial analyses examining the impact of climate variability on migration within the United States at a finer geographical scale remain limited. Objective: This study aims to investigate the environmental aspects of migration and explore the heterogeneous impacts of the environment on age- and place-specific migration patterns at the county level in the United States using spatial methods. Methods: We employed s