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environmental migrant

environmental migrant noun: a person forced to migrate away from a traditional living area due to local environmental degradation.

Noun

environmental migrant (plural environmental migrants)

  1. A person forced to migrate away from a traditional living area due to local environmental degradation.
    • While uncertain and prone to fluctuate according to unpredictable social and policy trends, climate change and other environmental pressures will trigger more mass migration over the coming decades, with an estimated 25 million to 1 billion environmental migrants expected by 2050.2021 January 13, Corey J.A. Bradshaw et al., “Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future”, in Frontiers in Conservation Science

Forms of environmental migrant

pluralenvironmental migrants

Questions about environmental migrant

What does environmental migrant mean?
Environmental migrant means a person forced to migrate away from a traditional living area due to local environmental degradation.
What part of speech is environmental migrant?
Environmental migrant is a noun.
What is the plural of environmental migrant?
The plural of environmental migrant is environmental migrants.

Words near environmental migrant in the dictionary

  1. environmental dependency syndrome
  2. environmental DNA
  3. environmental ethics
  4. environmental impact statement
  5. environmental impact statements
  6. environmental migrant
  7. environmental migrants
  8. environmental protection
  9. environmental racism
  10. environmental refugee
  11. environmental refugees

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