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a community threatened by climate change hazards and to assist with effective relocation in a new
location. In large Arctic urban centers such as those in Russia, rapidly thawing permafrost is causing
infrastructure to collapse and become unusable at an increased rate (Jaycen, 2014). While this
doesn’t lead to immediate migration, if a large enough portion of the infrastructure becomes
uninhabitable, it could lead to the need for relocation. It should be noted that in both the cases of
coastal Alaska and urban centers in Arctic Russia, that the impacts of climate change on migration
are more of a future threat and that the populations of some of the most erosion-threatened Alaskan
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