Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Opportunities:

Call for applicants: Two PhD positions, one postdoctoral position involving environment/migration-related research [info]

- Application deadline for all three positions is 21 December 2020.

Panel discussion: Re-examining displacement in the context of disasters and climate change: A Pacific perspective, 21 January 2021 [info]

Blog posts & press:

Debunking myths around the displacement-climate change connection (Devex, Dec. 2020) [text]

Disappearing States, Rising Statelessness: The Twin Crises Just Around the Corner (RLI Blog, Dec. 2020) [text]

From Climate Migration to Climate Mobilities (MPC Blog, Dec. 2020) [text]

Lessons learned: Responding to disaster displacement in the time of COVID-19 (IDMC Blog, Dec. 2020) [text]

Opinion: What does UNHCR's new guidance on the protection of 'climate refugees' mean? (Devex, Dec. 2020) [text]

*Rethinking Asylum on a Warming Planet (Jurist Blog, Dec. 2020) [text]

Twitter thread on "apocalyptic narratives about climate-linked mobility" (Alex Randall, Dec. 2020) [access]

Reports:

*Climate change induced migration: Informing policy on the internal migration (G20 Insights, Nov. 2020) [text]

Costs of climate inaction: displacement and distress migration (ActionAid, Dec. 2020) [text]

- Focuses on Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

*Displaced populations due to environmental perils: The challenge of climate migrants for the G20 community (G20 Insights, Nov. 2020) [text]

“Environmental Refugees: Extreme events driving people from their homes,” The Water Wheel (Nov./Dec. 2020) [full-text]

- Report on a recently completed research project undertaken by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. Scroll to p. 12. 

Human Mobility in the context of Environmental and Climate Change: Assessing current and recommended practices for analysis within DTM (IOM, Nov. 2022) [text]

The humanitarian impact of combined conflict, climate and environmental risks (ODI, Dec. 2020) [text]

New Approaches to Climate Change and Migration: Building the Adaptive Capacity of Mobile Populations (Migration Policy Institute, Dec. 2020) [text]

Journal articles & book chapters:

"Commentary: Environmental Mobility: The Responsibility of the International Community," International Migration, vol. 58, no. 6 (Dec. 2020) [free full-text]

"Commentary: Getting out of the climate migration ghetto: Understanding climate degradation and migration as processes of social inequalities," International Migration, vol. 58, no. 6 (Dec. 2020) [open access]

"Consistency and variation in the associations between refugee and environmental attitudes in European mass publics," Journal of Environmental Psychology, vol. 73 (Feb. 2021) [open access]

- See also related news release.

"Drought, flight, conflict: 'climate migration' as a driver for conflict?," Chapter in Climate Change, Security Risks, and Violent Conflicts: Essays from Integrated Climate Research in Hamburg (Hamburg Univ. Press, Nov. 2020) [full-text]

"Refugiados Climáticos, Vulnerabilidad y Protección Internacional," SCIO: Revista de Filosofía, no. 19 (Nov. 2020) [open access]

Multimedia:

Assessing the State of Data and Research on Human Mobility in the Context of Disaster, Climate Change and Environmental Degradation: Where are we and what comes next?, 24 Nov. 2020 [access]

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Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters (3 Dec. 2020)