Spatial assessment of climate stressors driving migration in coastal Bangladesh using AHP and GIS

The tendency of climate migration is an important factor at the present time worldwide. The main objective of this study is to investigate and prioritize the main causes of climate migration of Khulna District, Bangladesh utilizing the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and to generate a geographical hotspot map using Geographic Information System (GIS) that categorizes different possible migration destinations of the climate migrants. The study analyzed eight important contributing factors of migration. Data was derived from various sources, including publicly available maps, USGS elevation data, and Sentinel-2 visual images. Result from the study found that, storm exposure and impact was the most important…