Journal of Environmental Health
People, Pipes, and Population series—Part 3: Migration: The Slow Redistribution Reshaping Environmental Health
Climate-driven migration is reshaping where environmental health services are needed and challenging traditional approaches to workforce, resource, and data planning. This column examines how population shifts associated with flooding, wildfires, drought, extreme heat, and other pressures can rapidly change permitting, inspection, and infrastructure oversight demands in both sending and receiving communities. Because many modernization efforts rely on relatively static population and workload assumptions, changing …