Climate change, Desertification, and Migration: Connecting the dots

(Responding to Climate Change) April 27, 2012 – While climate change and desertification can often go hand in hand, each one able to exacerbate the other, the role these two factors play in migration is starting to gain increasing prominence in research circles. “When it comes to climate change we speak more on the impact [...]

Jon Barnett: Climate Adaptation Not Just Building Infrastructure, But Expanding Options

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFd4hpSBPfw&feature=youtu.be “I buy viagra uk think it’s appropriate to think about [climate change] adaptation or investments in adaptation as investments to open up the range of choices available to people uk viagra online to deal with cialis without prescriptions an uncertain future,” said Jon Barnett, associate professor of geography at the University of Melbourne, in [...]

Blog Post: No Way Out: Climate Change and Immobility

(World Policy Blog) September 12, 2011 - In the 1990s, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change asserted that “climate migrants” would be one of the most dire consequences of climate change. This, at times contentious argument, centers on how climate change acts as a “threat multiplier,” exacerbating existing environmental and social factors that drive migration. A precise correlation [...]

Interview: Eurasylum's Monthly Interview on Climate Change and Migration: the Latest Evidence

Eurasylum (www.eurasylum.org) has just released its new monthly policy vendita cialis interview, featuring Ms. Margareta cheap pharmacy Wahlström, Special lose weight calories Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction. The interview is on: “Climate change and migration: the latest evidence”. The interview can be accessed here.

Blog Post: Should Natural Disaster Victims Be Offered Safe Haven and Opportunity Abroad?

(Center for Global Development) October 27, 2010 - Last week, I hosted a roundtable here at CGD to discuss how the United States and other rich countries might better provide safe haven and opportunity to generic cialis price potential migrants from developing countries that are in acute need—particularly the victims of natural disasters. This question has [...]

Five-part multimedia series investigates Dhaka, Bangladesh

I have posted before about one of the fastest growing “megacities” in the world, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Nearly 500,000 migrants flow into the capital city each year, many motivated by environmental pressures. Erik German and Solana Pyne of GlobalPost examine the future of Dhaka in a five-part multimedia special report. This series is currently shown on [...]