09 April 2021

Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Blog posts & press:

*Climate & Migration (SIHMA Blog, April 2021) [text]
- Focuses on Africa.

Climate migrants: How German courts take the environment into account when considering non-refoulement (Völkerrechtsblog, March 2021) [text]

Honduras Migration: Climate Change, Violence, & Assistance (Future Development Blog, April 2021) [text]

It’s Time to Recognize Climate Refugees (International Policy Digest, April 2021) [text]

"Then and Now: 25 years of disasters, responses, and risk management," The New Humanitarian, 1 April 2021 [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"Climatic conditions are weak predictors of asylum migration," Nature Communications, 12:2067 (April 2021) [open access]
- See also related blog post.

From Basic Needs to the Recovery of Livelihoods: Local integration of people displaced by drought in Ethiopia (Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, March 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Recommendations on managing risk and addressing disaster displacement: challenges, effective practices and solutions, Asia-Pacific Policy Brief (Global Protection Cluster, March 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Leaving Place, Restoring Home: Enhancing the Evidence Base on Planned Relocation Cases in the Context of Hazards, Disasters, and Climate Change (Platform on Disaster Displacement & Kaldor Centre, March 2021) [text]
- See also related press release.

“Legal Protection for the Environmental Refugee,” Journal of Sharia and Law, vol. 2021, no. 85 (2021) [full-text]

Multimedia:

Changing Climate, Changing Migration: Is Climate Change Driving Migration from Central America?, 26 March 2021 [access]
- Follow link for podcast.

Changing Climate, Changing Migration: The Benefits of Climate Migration, 2 April 2021 [access]
- Follow link for podcast.

Climate Change & Forced Displacement, 25 Feb. 2021 [access]
- Follow link for video recording.

Rising Sea Levels: Climate Displacement as a Human Right Violation, 17 March 2021 [access]
- See also related summary of Jane McAdam's presentation. 

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