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- http://dpanther.fiu.edu/dpService/dpPurlService/purl/FI13022770/00001
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- Summary:
- This document presents the work of various academics on the issues of climate change, disasters, and resulting human migrations. They are principally concerned with identifying and closing gaps in current institutional frameworks established to protect environmental migrants. Climate change is increasingly responsible for the devastation of human communities and livelihoods either through more frequent and intense extreme weather events, such as floods and hurricanes, or less immediate but equally devastating slow onset disasters such as drought and desertification. While migration has been a traditional means of coping with these hazards, in today’s context, it is an adaptation strategy filled with complexities. The compilation of works in this document address the social vulnerabilities and protection issues facing environmental migrants and some of the protection regimes, international laws, and conventions that currently exist to deal with the growing reality of environmental migration. The first section of the compilation is divided into two parts. The first part focuses on rapid-onset disasters, addressing climate-induced disasters and displacement in coastal Bangladesh, social capital as a source of community resilience in the face of hurricanes in El Salvador, and the relationship between social vulnerability and environmental migration in the United States. Part two of this section emphasizes slow-onset disasters, highlighting the relationship between drought, food insecurity, and migration in Ethiopia, as well as gully erosion in Nigeria and coping strategies adopted. The second section of the document looks at international law and regional efforts to deal with climate change-induced migration. It highlights opportunities for labor migration within the South Pacific as a potential solution to the region’s ‘sinking islands’ problem, presents the Colombian Temporary and Circular Labor Migration project with Spain as an example, and analyzes the expanding mandate of the UNHCR to include those displaced by natural disaster. From these various works, a number of best practices are drawn. They include treating migration as a component of climate change adaptation policy, incorporating climate-related migration factors into disaster preparedness and response efforts, establishing agencies responsible for coordinating migration and resettlement after disasters, and coordinating natural resource management and climate-related migration as elements of climate change adaptation at the regional level. ( , )
- Subject:
- Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change
- Citation/Reference:
- Leighton, M., Shen, X., Warner, K. (eds). (2011). Climate change and migration: rethinking policies for adaptation and disaster risk reduction. United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS), Munich Re Foundation.
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