Main characteristics of environmental migration

The process of environmental migration is the process of population moving from areas with high population pressure to areas with low population pressure. At the same time, the impact of population distribution on environmental resources (including land resources, water resources, land resources and forest resources). ) has also been adjusted accordingly. Therefore, environmental migration refers to the adjustment of population distribution structure and the redistribution of environmental resources.

If immigrants continue to destroy the ecological environment of the place where they move in, the output of environmental immigrants is not only the output of people, but also the output of ecological environment deterioration and poverty. Environmental migration, like an environmental disaster, brings a bad environment to new areas with immigrants. For example, in Ethiopia, as environmental migration moves from north to south, soil erosion, environmental degradation and poverty also move south.