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Climate of migration? How climate triggered migration from southwest Germany to North America during the 19th century
Rüdiger Glaser
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Physical Geography, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
Iso Himmelsbach
Physical Geography, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
Annette Bösmeier
Physical Geography, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Incorporation of weather parameters in MMRC-K model for rainfall disaggregation D. Chowdhury et al. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00477-024-02863-4
- Climate and migration in historical perspective L. Dolák et al. https://doi.org/10.37040/geografie.2025.011
- New perspectives on historical climatology S. White et al. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.808
- Harnessing translational research in wheat for climate resilience M. Reynolds et al. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erab256
- Trends and future research in climate migration: a bibliometric analysis of forty years A. Khavarian-Garmsir et al. https://doi.org/10.1080/17477891.2023.2265928
- The elusive climate migrant: symbolic geographies in migration studies V. Pérez-Segura et al. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-025-00489-1
- Climate change and climate migration: issues and questions around an in-transition Tunisian economy O. Zouabi https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-021-03006-2
- 300-year drought frames Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age transition in the Near East: new palaeoecological data from Cyprus and Syria D. Kaniewski et al. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-018-01460-w
- Climate Change, Agriculture and Migration: A Survey C. Falco et al. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10051405
- Prospect Theory, Cascade Effects, and Migration: Analyzing Emigration “Fevers” in the Historical Atlantic World W. O’Reilly & J. Boyd https://doi.org/10.1162/jinh_a_01519
- Climate change and international migration in Sub-Saharan Africa: Effects and transmission channels A. Aurélien & E. Marthe https://doi.org/10.1007/s10018-024-00433-0
- Volcanoes, Climate, and Society U. Büntgen et al. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-earth-032524-013254
- Solar radiation, rice prices, and migration in northeastern Japan during the 18th and 19th centuries M. Ichino et al. https://doi.org/10.37040/geografie.2025.013
- Reconstructions of droughts in Germany since 1500 – combining hermeneutic information and instrumental records in historical and modern perspectives R. Glaser & M. Kahle https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-16-1207-2020
- Digital innovations in historical climatology: Classifying weather and climatic extremes and their impacts on societies using machine learning on written documents M. Kahle & R. Glaser https://doi.org/10.37040/geografie.2025.014
- Climate change and migration: Is agriculture the main channel? C. Falco et al. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2019.101995
- Drought, hunger, and migration: A retrospect of North China from the mid-18th century to the early 20th century D. Zhang et al. https://doi.org/10.37040/geografie.2025.012
- Very Small Glaciers as Geoheritage: Combining a Spatio-Temporal Visualisation of Their Development and Related Effects of Climate Change M. Triglav Čekada et al. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12371-020-00511-1
- Linking climate change, environmental degradation, and migration: An update after 10 years E. Piguet https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.746
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Short summary
This paper presents the extent to which climate, harvest and prices influenced the major migration waves from southwest Germany into North America during the 19th century, a century of dramatic climatic and societal changes.
This paper presents the extent to which climate, harvest and prices influenced the major...
