Paper: Linking climate change, environmental degradation, and migration: a methodological overview

Etienne Piguet, a professor at Universite de Neuchatel in Switzerland, published a paper in the Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, Volume 1, Issue 4. propecia online pharmacy In it, he claims that although many agree that climate change will induce migration, few, if any at all, can prove to what degree. He lays out a […]

Paper: Ecological Refugees, States Borders, and the Lockean Proviso

Cara Nine of the University College Cork recently submitted the paper “Ecological Refugees, State Borders, and the Lockean Proviso” to the Journal of Applied Philosophy. In this essay she expounds on the term “ecological refugee,” which we might better understand as environmental or climate-induced migrant. She analyzes the question: what may the people of an […]

News: If a Country Sinks Beneath the Sea, Is It Still a Country?

(ClimateWire) August 23, 2010 – Rising ocean levels brought about by climate change have created a flood of unprecedented legal questions for small island nations and their neighbors. Among them: If a country disappears, is it still a country? Does it keep its seat at the United Nations? Who controls its offshore mineral rights? Its […]

New Publication: Climate Change and Displacement

Jane McAdam has further added to the gap in climate change and migration literature with her newest opus Climate Change and Displacement: Multidisciplinary Perspectives. As her book summary outlines: Environmental migration is not new. Nevertheless, the events and processes accompanying global climate change threaten to increase human movement both within States and across international borders. The […]

Carteret Islands in the Movies Again: Sun Come Up

A new movie on climate change and migration arrived at the 14th annual DocuWeeks called Sun Come Up. You can watch the film between Friday, July 30 and Thursday, August 5 in New York City. Synopsis: Sun Come Up follows the relocation of some of the world’s first “environmental refugees,” the Carteret Islanders – a community […]

Will Climate Change Lead to Mass Immigration from Mexico?

(The New Republic) July 27, 2010 – Will a hotter climate mean more immigration? In some places, yes, that’s quite possible. Earlier this week, a team of researchers led by Princeton’s Michael Oppenheimer published a study suggesting that as global warming causes agricultural yields in Mexico to decline, an additional 1.4 million to 6.7 million […]