Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Event:

Panel discussion: Good Evidence, Bad Politics: Overcoming the Noise in Climate Change and Migration Policy, Sydney, 23 August 2018 [info]

Publications:

Addressing the Challenges of Climate-induced Migration and Presenting Future Adaptation Strategies to Enable Stronger Cooperation Between Australia and Its Pacific Neighbours (APO, July 2018) [text]

Assessing the Evidence: Migration, Environment and Climate Change in Namibia (IOM & Govt. of Namibia, July 2018) [text via ReliefWeb]

Central and North America: Migration and Displacement in the Context of Disasters and Environmental Change, Migration, Environment & Climate Change Policy Brief Series, vol. 4, no. 1 (IOM, March 2018) [text]
- See also this related PRI interview with author of recent book, Storming the Wall: Climate Change, Migration, and Homeland Security (City Lights Publishers, Sept. 2017).

Climate ‘Refugees’: Towards a Possible Definition (EPRS, June 2018) [text]

"Colonial Fences Make Contentious Neighbors: Policy, Law, and Climate Refugees in India," Hastings Environmental Law Journal, vol. 24, no. 2 (2018) [full-text]

"Contextualizing Environmental Migration: The Gap Between the Legal Nature of Refuge and Environment during the Age of Global Warming and Natural Catastrophes," Revista de Direito Econômico e Socioambiental, vol. 9, no. 1 (Jan./April 2018) [open access]

Disaster Displacement: How to Reduce Risk, Address Impacts and Strengthen Resilience, Words into Action Guidelines (UNISDR, July 2018) [text via ReliefWeb]
- "A companion for implementing the Sendai Framework target E." Note: Target (e) aims to "Substantially increase the number of countries with national and local disaster risk reduction strategies by 2020."

"A Dispute in the Making: A Critical Examination of Displacement, Climate Change and the Pacific Islands," Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, vol. 31, no. 1 (2018) [free full-text]

Environmental Displacement in 2018: Current Protection Challenges - RLI Working Paper Series Mini Volume (Papers 23-26) (Refugee Law Initiative, July 2018) [text]

"From Cancun to Paris: An Era of Policy Making on Climate Change and Migration," Global Policy, vol. 9, no. 1 (Feb. 2018) [free full-text]

"Issues Not Addressed in the Paris Agreement: Climate Change Refugees," The Federal Lawyer (March 2018) [full-text]

"No Retreat: Climate Change and Voluntary Immobility in the Pacific Islands," Migration Information Source, 13 June 2018 [text]

"'The place where I live is where I belong': Community Perspectives on Climate Change and Climate-related Migration in the Pacific Island Nation of Vanuatu," Island Studies Journal, vol. 13, no. 1 (May 2018) [open access]

"The Refugees the World Barely Pays Attention to," NPR, 20 June 2018 [text]

Related post:
- Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters (12 June 2018)

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