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- This is a report on research conducted on behalf of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The research inquires about the relationship between climate change, disasters, and displacement, with empirical findings gleaned from two countries in Africa, Somalia and Burundi. The report presents the methodology used to conduct the research and the main findings. Over the last twenty years, the number of disasters globally has doubled from nearly 200 to over 400 a year. One of the primary variables in the increasing frequency and severity of disasters has been climate change. “In 2007, the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC authoritatively established that human-induced climate change is accelerating and already has severe impacts on the environment and human lives” (p. 1). One of the principal ways that climate-related disasters are impacting human lives is through the displacement of vulnerable populations. More than 20 million individuals were displaced in 2008 because of “sudden-onset disasters” like floods and storms. “Slow-onset disasters,” like drought, affected 26.5 million individuals in 2008, but the exact number of people displaced is not clear. Increasingly, sea-level rise, a slow-onset disaster, is causing a loss of state territory, particularly in small island states (p. 2). Climate-change and climate-induced disasters have also been indirect causes of displacement by being one of a number of factors producing conflict. The research presented in this document is driven by three main objectives. The first is to determine the relationship between disasters, conflict, and displacement in the context of climate change; the second is related to protecting persons displaced due to climate change impacts; the third is to inquire about the extent to which society and law can avoid displacement and protect displaced individuals while looking for long-lasting solutions to displacement in a situation of climate change. The research involves a desk-study, a field study, and 49 semi-structured interviews with affected people and experts. The report asserts that there is a need to look at climate change in relation to other variables like disease outbreaks, environmental degradation, and even measures that aim at mitigating climate change. ( English )
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- Climate Change ( English )
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- Disasters ( English )
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- Displacement ( English )
- Citation/Reference:
- Kolmannskog, V. (2009). Climate change, disaster, displacement and migration: initial evidence from Africa. Norwegian Refugee Council, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
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- Florida International University
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- FI13042488
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