Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Opportunities:

Workshop series: Developing a Research and Policy Agenda for Addressing Disaster and Climate Change Displacement in Africa, 1 February-31 May 2021 [info]

Seminar: Legal Responses to Cross-border ‘Environmental’ Mobility, 10 February 2021 [info]

Reports & book chapters:

Climate Change and the Future of Safe Returns (UNHCR & Potsdam Inst. for Climate Impact Research, Nov. 2020) [text]

Migration: a critical climate change resilience strategy (Institute of Security Studies, Dec. 2020) [text]

- Focuses on Africa. See also related blog post.

Pushed to the Brink? The impact of COVID-19 on environmental migration in the Sahel (REACH Initiative, Jan. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Refugee Law in a Time of Climate Change, Disaster and Conflict,  Legal and Protection Policy Research Series, no. 40 (UNHCR, Jan. 2020) [text]

- Note: The publication date for this paper is 2020 but it was just posted to Refworld in Jan. 2021.

"Rethinking Asylum on a Warming Planet," Essay in World Report 2021 (Human Rights Watch, Jan. 2021) [text]

"The role of national law and policy in addressing displacement in the context of disasters and climate change in Asia and the Pacific," Chapter in Climate Change, Disasters, and Internal Displacement in Asia and the Pacific: A Human Rights-Based Approach (Routledge, Nov. 2020) [postprint]

- More info about this book is provided here.

Sustainable Energy, Displacement and Climate Resilience (UNHCR & UNITAR, Sept. 2020) [text]

Journal articles:

"Climate migration and the UK," Journal of the British Academy, vol. 9 (2021) [open access]

"Environmental Mobility in a Polarized World: Questioning the Pertinence of the 'Climate Refugee' Label for Pacific Islanders," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Latest Articles, 12 Jan. 2021 [free full-text]

"Forced displacement and climate change: Time for global governance," International Journal: Canada’s Journal of Global Policy Analysis, vol. 75, no. 4 (2020) [free full-text]

"Government-led Resettlement after Natural Disasters as a Durable Solution? The Case of Cyclone Idai," Refugee Survey Quarterly, Advance Articles, 25 Dec. 2020 [open access]

"Migration as Adaptation?," Migration Studies, vol. 8, no. 4 (Dec. 2020) [open access]

"New territorial rights for sinking island states," European Journal of Political Theory, vol. 20, no. 1 (2021) [postprint]

"Reconceptualising climate-induced displacement in the context of terminological uncertainty," Environmental Hazards, Latest Articles, 6 Jan. 2021 [free full-text via author]

- Note: The complete text is "Free to 1st 50 readers!," according to the a/m tweet. 

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters (28 Dec. 2020)