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Close to 200 million people are living outside their country of birth. Increasing numbers are refugees fleeing their homeland for another country. Human migration can have rapid and complex impacts on rural and urban environments. At the same time, environmental changes, such as drought and rising sea levels, are expected to force millions more people to migrate. In this PRB Discuss Online, Jason Bremner, program director for Population, Health, and Environment at PRB, answered participants' questions on this topic. Read a transcript of the questions and answers. (July 2008

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