"Environmentally-induced migration has been raising attention worldwide. However, environmentally-induced migration is more common in developing countries where rural to urban transition often takes place in an unmanaged way, due to many factors. Identifying the drivers and underlying factors behind land cover change is crucial for ecosystem management and planning. Rural to urban migration in Iraqi Kurdistan has increased significantly over the last four decades. The purpose of this study is to investigate the motivation behind rural-urban migration, and to determine the relationship, if any, between changes in the environment (forest cover change specifically) and rural to urban migration. This study focused on the sub-district of Zawita (in Iraqi Kurdistan) and involved three types of data: forest inventory, remote sensing data and household survey data." -- Abstract.
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