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By Miriam Cullen, Matthew Scott
June 20, 2024
This collection will be the first to address climate-related human mobility in the Nordic region. Academic discussion of climate-related human mobility has understandably focussed on the places where people are especially vulnerable to climate-related harm: the Global South. Yet, the unique ...
By Francesca Rosignoli
January 29, 2024
This book explores who climate refugees are and how environmental justice might be used to overcome legal obstacles preventing them from being recognized at an international level. Francesca Rosignoli begins by exploring the conceptual and complex issues that surround the very existence of climate...
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By Idowu Jola Ajibade, A.R. Siders
May 31, 2023
This edited volume advances our understanding of climate relocation (or planned retreat), an emerging topic in the fields of climate adaptation and hazard risk, and provides a platform for alternative voices and views on the subject. As the effects of climate change become more severe and ...
By Anna Ginty
January 09, 2023
This book lifts the taboo on maladaptation, a different driver of environmentally induced migration, which shines a light on the negative consequences arising from the solutions to climate change, adaptation and mitigation policies. Through a systematic analysis and critique of existing mitigation ...
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By James P. Robson, Dan Klooster, Jorge Hernández-Díaz
October 22, 2018
Out-migration might decrease the pressure of population on the environment, but what happens to the communities that manage the local environment when they are weakened by the absence of their members? In an era where community-based natural resource management has emerged as a key hope for ...
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By Simon Behrman, Avidan Kent
February 12, 2018
Current estimates of the numbers of people who will be forced from their homes as a result of climate change by the middle of the century range from 50 to 200 million. Therefore, even the most optimistic projections envisage a crisis of migration that will dwarf any we have seen so far. And yet ...
By Victoria van der Land
October 26, 2017
The West African Sahel is predicted to be heavily affected by climate change in the future. Slow-onset environmental changes, such as increasing rainfall variability and rising temperature, are presumed to worsen the livelihood conditions and to increase the out-migration from the affected regions....
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By Dimitra Manou, Andrew Baldwin, Dug Cubie, Anja Mihr, Teresa Thorp
May 12, 2017
Climate Change already having serious impacts on the lives of millions of people across the world. These impacts are not only ecological, but also social, economic and legal. Among the most significant of such impacts is climate change-induced migration. The implications of this on human rights ...