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This article explores the escalating impact of natural disasters, particularly droughts, in the Southern African Development Community (SADC), with a specific focus on Eswatini. Over the last century, approximately 63 million people in SADC countries have ...

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1805-1898 Census Records of Lausanne : a Long Digital Dataset for Demographic History

Isabella Di Lenardo, Lucas Arnaud André Rappo, Rémi Guillaume Petitpierre, Marion Kramer

This historical dataset stems from the project of automatic extraction of 72 census records of Lausanne, Switzerland. The complete dataset covers a century of historical demography in Lausanne (1805-1898), which corresponds to 18,831 pages, and nearly 6 mi ...

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The end of urban sprawl? Internal migration across the rural-urban continuum in Switzerland, 1966-2018

Mathias Lerch

In high-income countries, migration redistributed populations from congested city centres into the sparsely populated outskirts, raising challenges to environmental and population health and the conservation of biodiversity. We evaluate whether this periur ...

WILEY2022

International Migration and City Growth in the Global South: An Analysis of IPUMS Data for Seven Countries, 1992–2013

Mathias Lerch

Evidence on the demographic components of city growth in the global South is scarce, and the role played by international migration is neglected. We analyze the importance of recent international migration in cities, compare it with that of internal moveme ...

2020

Linking micro and macroevolution in the presence of migration

Sophie Myriam Hautphenne, Laurent Lehmann, Nicolas Salamin

Understanding macroevolutionary patterns is central to evolutionary biology. This involves the process of divergence within a species, which starts at the microevolutionary level, for instance, when two sub populations evolve towards different phenotypic o ...

ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2020

Population Genomics of Mycobacterium leprae Reveals a New Genotype in Madagascar and the Comoros

Stewart Cole, Andrej Benjak, Charlotte Avanzi, Philippe Busso, Pushpendra Singh, Thyago Leal Calvo

Human settlement of Madagascar traces back to the beginning of the first millennium with the arrival of Austronesians from Southeast Asia, followed by migrations from Africa and the Middle East. Remains of these different cultural, genetic, and linguistic ...

2020

Water Ecosystems Threats Across the Vietnam Mekong Delta’s Diffused Territories

Sylvie Tram Nguyen

The rural to urban migration trend at the world’s Delta regions has contributed to making cities along major Deltas in South East Asia, among those with the highest densities in urbanized territories. Once known as the ‘rice bowl’ of Vietnam, the Mekong De ...

2019

Going work-related high mobile in Santiago, a question of conciliation? Investigating long-duration commute through hybrid choice modelling

Pauline Geneviève Thérèse Hosotte

Santiago de Chile has had to face a renewed wave of urban migration in the past few decades, placing mobility at the centre of many concerns. Whether social, economic or environmental, the impacts of mobility behaviour require further investigation, in ord ...

2018

Genome-wide SNP profiling of worldwide goat populations reveals strong partitioning of diversity and highlights post-domestication migration routes

Stéphane Joost, Estelle Rochat, Elia Vajana

Background: Goat populations that are characterized within the AdaptMap project cover a large part of the worldwide distribution of this species and provide the opportunity to assess their diversity at a global scale. We analysed genome-wide 50K single nuc ...

BMC2018

Quantifying the Benefits of Labor Mobility in a Currency Union

Unemployment differentials are bigger in Europe than in the United States. Migration responds to unemployment differentials, though the response is smaller in Europe. Mundell (1961) argued that factor mobility is a precondition for a successful currency un ...

2018

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