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  1. Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada

    Robert McLeman

  2. Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA

    David Wrathall

  3. Clark University, Worcester, USA

    Elisabeth Gilmore

  4. CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security, International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya

    Philip Thornton

  5. King’s College London, London, UK

    Helen Adams

  6. Hugo Observatory, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium

    François Gemenne

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McLeman, R., Wrathall, D., Gilmore, E. et al. Conceptual framing to link climate risk assessments and climate-migration scholarship. Climatic Change 165, 24 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-021-03056-6

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