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Migration significantly impacts sustainable development, affecting societal well-being, inequality, and environmental resources. Understanding these complex interactions is key for achieving sustainability transitions globally.

Keywords:

demographic change migration mobility natural resources sustainable development

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Area of Science:

Interdisciplinary research at the nexus of migration studies, demography, and sustainability science.

Background:

Sustainable development necessitates understanding diverse population movements and their spatial-temporal feedback.
Emerging science highlights migration's consequences on nature-society interactions, inequality, and involuntary displacement.

Purpose of the Study:

To review and synthesize current scientific understanding of migration's implications for sustainable development.
To advance a framework integrating various migration types and their sustainability outcomes.
To identify research frontiers in migration and sustainability science.

Main Methods:

Review of emerging scientific literature at the intersection of migration, demography, and sustainability.
Development of a conceptual framework to analyze migration outcomes on resources, well-being, and governance.
Integration of regular migration and involuntary displacement within the sustainability context.

Main Results:

Migration influences societal outcomes like inequality and well-being.
Environmental factors drive involuntary displacement, with significant consequences.
Cultural convergence in sustainability practices occurs within new populations.
Migration impacts resource use, environmental burdens, and innovation for sustainability.

Conclusions:

Migration can contribute to sustainability transitions by enhancing well-being.
Potential negative impacts include exacerbating structural inequalities and uneven environmental burdens.
Effective sustainability governance requires integrating the full spectrum of migration, from economic motives to displacement.