24 October 2022

Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

This more general round-up of recent publications complements my previous post featuring climate change-related journal articles published by authors based in the Global South. 

Blog posts & press:

*Climate Change and Migration: A Complex Web (African Law Matters, July 2022) [text]

*Climate Crisis Impacts: The Cross Border Displacement of Children (African Law Matters, July 2022) [text]

Climate Mobility Africa Research Network urges governments at COP27 to act now for protection of displaced people (Kaldor Centre, Oct. 2022) [text]

Empowering Migrants during Crises: Climate Action in South-East Asia (IOM Blog, Oct. 2022) [text]

How do IDPs and refugees fit within traditional, indigenous, and local knowledge of disasters? (CMI Blog, Oct. 2022) [text]

Uneven displacement: How a village in coastal Guinea-Bissau is battling rising sea levels (CMI Blog, Sept. 2022) [text]

What Legal Options for Environmental and Climate-Displaced People under the Italian Protection System? Complementary protection on humanitarian grounds v. ad hoc regimes (RLI Blog, Sept. 2022) [text]

Reports:

Climate mobility in Khartoum Process countries: an exploration of interventions (Mixed Migration Centre, (Oct. 2022) [text]

A dry horizon: Iraq’s interlinked drought and climate crises (Norwegian Refugee Council, Oct. 2022) [text]

Equipped to Adapt? A Review of Climate Hazards and Pastoralists’ Responses in the IGAD Region (IOM & ICPALD, March 2022) [text via RSC]

How Can We Protect “Climate Refugees”? (Rice Univ., Oct. 2022) [text]

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, UN Doc. No. A/77/189 (UN General Assembly, July 2022) [text]
- "In the report, the Special Rapporteur reviews the complex relationship between climate change, human rights and migration, as well as the multifaceted drivers of cross-border migration in the context of climate change." See also related press release.

Journal articles & book chapters:

"Climate refugees: A useful concept? Towards an alternative vocabulary of ecological displacement," Politics, OnlineFirst, 10 Feb. 2022 [open access]

"Les 'déplacés climatiques', les oubliés de la solidarité internationale et européenne: De la gouvernance au contentieux," Revue des droits de l'homme, no. 22 (2022) [full-text]

*"Environmental Justice and Climate-Induced Migration," Chapter in Climate Refugees: Global, Local and Critical Approaches (Cambridge Univ. Press, April 2022) [Academia]

"Expanding the Duty to Rescue to Climate Migration," Voices in Bioethics, vol. 8 (2022) [open access]

*"Governing people on the move in a warming world: Framing climate change migration and the UNFCCC Task Force on Displacement," Global Environmental Change, vol. 76 (Sept. 2022) [open access]

"Linking climate change, environmental degradation, and migration: An update after 10 years," WIREs Climate Change, vol. 13, no. 1 (2022) [open access]

“Migraciones ambientales: marcos normativos y políticas públicas en América Latina y el Caribe,” Chapter in (Re)pensando el vínculo entre migración y crisis: Perspectivas desde América Latina y Europa (CALAS & CLASCO, 2021) [open access]
- Scroll to p. 141.

*"Nordic Norms, Natural Disasters, and International Protection: Swedish and Finnish Practice in European Perspective," Nordic Journal of International Law, vol. 91, no. 1 (2022) [open access]

"Nowhere to Go: A Regional Human Rights-Based Approach to Climate Displacee Protection in Southeast Asia," Washington International Law Journal, vol. 31, no. 2 (2022) [full-text]

"The Sea Swallowed our Houses and Rice Fields: The Vulnerability to Climate Change of Coastal People in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa," Human Ecology, Latest Articles, 12 Sept. 2022 [free full-text]

"A systematic review of climate migration research: gaps in existing literature," SN Social Sciences, 2:47 (April 2022) [open access]

"Who is the climate-induced trapped figure?," WIREs Climate Change, Early View, 23 Oct. 2022 [open access]

*UPDATED

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