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Articles | Volume XLI-B4
https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLI-B4-743-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLI-B4-743-2016
14 Jun 2016
 | 14 Jun 2016

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT, MIGRATION AND SOCIOECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Kyaw Sann Oo

Keywords: Migration, rural, agriculture, urban, climate change

Abstract. Geospatial data are available in raster and vector formats and some of them are available in open data form. The technique and tools to handle those data are also available in open source. Though it is free of charge, the knowledge to utilize those data is limited to non-educated in the specific field. The data and technology should be promoted to those levels to utilize in required fields with priceless in developing countries. Before utilize open data, which are required to verify with local knowledge to become usable information for the local people as priceless data resources. Developing country, which economic is based in agriculture, required more information about precise weather data and weather variation by the climate change impact for their socioeconomic development.

This study found that rural to urban migration occurs in the developing countries such agriculture based country likes Myanmar when the agriculture economic are affected by unpredictable impact by the climate change. The knowledge sharing using open data resources to non-educated local people is one of the curable solutions for the agriculture economy development in the country. Moreover, the study will find ways to reduce the rural to urban migration.