09 December 2019

Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Opportunities:

Call for contributions: Humanitarian Law & Policy Blog [info]
- Seeks contributors of blog posts on climate change, conflict and humanitarian action.

CFP: Forced Migration Review [info]
- Contributions sought for a theme issue on "Climate crisis and local communities." FMR is an open access publication. Submission deadline is 17 February 2020.

Blog posts & press:

Climate Change is Altering Migration Patterns Regionally and Globally (Center for American Progress, Dec. 2019) [text]

Climate, Not Conflict, Drove Many Syrian Refugees to Lebanon (The Conversation, Dec. 2019) [text]

Climate Refugees: Why We Can’t Yet Predict Where Millions of Displaced People Will Go (The Conversation, Nov. 2019) [text]

*Comment by Andrew Harper, UNHCR’s Newly Appointed Special Advisor on Climate Action, Who is Attending This Year’s UN Climate Change Conference, Known as COP 25, in Madrid (UNHCR, Dec. 2019) [text]

From Caution to Creative Solutions: The Necessary Evolution of the Climate Migration Debate (New Security Beat Blog, Nov. 2019) [text]

When Rain Turns to Dust: Climate Change, Conflict and Humanitarian Action (Humanitarian Law & Policy Blog, Dec. 2019) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Assessing the Impacts of Climate Change on Flood Displacement Risk (Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, Dec. 2019) [text]
- See also related media release.

Children Uprooted in the Caribbean: How Stronger Hurricanes Linked to a Changing Climate are Driving Child Displacement (Unicef, Dec. 2019) [text]
- See also related press release.

"Climate Change and Demography as Push Factors of Migration Pressure," Chapter in Weathering the Storm: Charting New Courses in the Mediterranean (ISPI, Dec. 2019) [text]

"Climatic Statelessness: Risk Assessment and Policy Options," Population and Development Review, Early View, 27 Nov. 2019 [open access]

"Climatic Stress, Internal Migration, and Syrian Civil War Onset," Journal of Conflict Resolution, vol. 64, no. 1 (2020) [preprint]

Forced from Home: Climate-fuelled Displacement, Media Briefing (Oxfam, Dec. 2019) [text via ReliefWeb]
- See also French version.

"Managing Displacement in the Era of Climate Change," Georgetown Journal of International Affairs Online, 7 Nov. 2019 [full-text]

Nature Climate Change, 9 (26 Nov. 2019) [free full-text]
- Follow link for a focus feature on "Climate Migration," with an editorial and four articles that look at migration resulting from sea-level change, climate migration myths, migration and climate adaptation in a time of hardening borders, and coastal community relocation.

Strengthening IFRC Responses to Internal Displacement in Disasters: Challenges and Opportunities (IFRC, Nov. 2019) [text]

*UPDATED

Related posts:
- Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters - Pt. 1 (14 Nov. 2019)
Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters - Pt. 2 (14 Nov. 2019)

Tagged Publications and Events & Opportunities.


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