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#4 Visualize Factors Related to Refugee Rates

Goal: Build a visualization that enables users to explore the relationship between environmental, social, and diplomatic factors and asylum requests.

Context: Many factors play into the decision to leave one's country. Are there any patterns or events that are clearly related to spikes or declines in asylum requests, or relationships that are unexpected?

Data: UNHCR Population Statistics Database,

conflict events data, water stress, freedom index,

governance indicators, famine, poverty rates, etc.

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ImpactHack | 2018

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Technology Best Practices for Resource Watch Blog

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  • The World Resources Institute is interested in understanding how natural resource stress can lead to people becoming refugees. Using provided content, construct an interactive that allows users to see the connections between environmental, social, and diplomatic factors and asylum requests.

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  • Browser-based interactive is highly preferred for most adaptable use.

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  • All concepts presented will be open source for future development by the WRI (either with the participants or independently) or other entities, royalty free.

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Intended use

This visualization/interactive will be published within a Resource Watch blog. It will allow visitors to the site to think about how natural resource degradation and other factors may impact refugees flows. Target audience is the general public.

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Notes & Helpful Links

The data provided in the folder is the refugee numbers by country of origin. See the UNHCR website for more detailed information about country of asylum request: http://popstats.unhcr.org/en/persons_of_concern

Explore the following datasets and others for your visualization: