Posted by Kayly Ober on June 29th, 2011 |
Thanks to Forced Migration Current Awareness, we’ve learned of a few publications related to climate change and migration. They include: “At the Water’s Edge: Legal Protections and Funding for a New Generation of Climate Change Refugees,” Ocean and Coastal Law Journal, vol. 16, no. 1 (2011) [full-text] Maladapted Migration: What Does It Mean? (Centre for Refugee […]
Posted by Kayly Ober on June 9th, 2011 |
(Inter Press Service) June 9, 2011 – Mass migration will inevitably be part of human adaptation to climate change, experts agree, since parts of the world will become uninhabitable in the com ing decades. Last year, 38 million people were displaced by climate-related disasters such as the flooding in Pakistan and China. “Human displacement due […]
Posted by Kayly Ober on June 8th, 2011 |
(Reuters) June 6, 2011 – The world must invent new ways to protect people driven from their homes by climate change without copying safeguards for those uprooted by wars or persecution, the head of the U.N. refugee agency said on Monday. “There is a protection gap in the international system that needs to be addressed,” […]
Posted by Kayly Ober on May 24th, 2011 |
Again, thanks to Forced Migration Current Awareness, we learned of a series of podcasts that deal with environmentally-induced migration : Stephen Castles Speaks on Climate Refugees (BBC, May 2011) [access] “Environmental Refugee” Not Accurate for Pacific (Radio Australia, May 2011) [access] Tuvaluans Don’t Want to be Called Refugees (Radio Australia, May 2011) [access] Many thanks, […]
Posted by Kayly Ober on May 24th, 2011 |
Thanks to Forced Migration Current Awareness we learned of a special issue of International Migration that focuses on environmentally-induced migration. Contents include the following: A Decision Framework for Environmentally Induced Migration Multidimensional Re-creation of cialis sale Vulnerabilities and Potential for Resilience in International Migration The Thin Line Between Choice and Flight: Environment and Migration in Rural […]
Posted by Kayly Ober on May 20th, 2011 |
(IRIN) May 20, 2011 – For centuries, residents around Can Tho, a city of 1.1m people in southern Vietnam, just 0.8m above sea level, have depended on flood cycles to grow crops. However, experts warn there is a possibility that sea levels will rise in the delta region around Can Tho due to climate change, […]
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