03 August 2023

Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Opportunity:

Launch event: Climate Mobility Africa 'Insights', Online, 8 August 2023 [info]

Short pieces:

Climate Change or just Changing Climate? Steps towards recognition and protection for climate change displaced persons within the Human Rights Council (RLI Blog, July 2023) [text]

International Migration, vol. 61, no. 4 (Aug. 2023) [contents]
- Scroll down to the "Commentaries" section to access four freely available contributions relating to climate change and disaster displacement; the first commentary provides an overview of the issues addressed in each piece. 

Reports:

A Bibliometric Analysis of Research at the Nexus of Climate Change, Human Mobility, and Human Rights (Raoul Wallenberg Institute, 2023) [text]

Climate Refugees: Facts, Findings, and Strategies for "Loss and Damage" (UC Berkeley, July 2023) [text]

Climate-induced human mobility: How can anticipatory action play a role in Asia and the Pacific? (FAO & IOM, July 2023) [text]

Climate-linked Mobility: A Key to Development (Institute for Security Studies, July 2023) [text]
- See also related ISS Today post.

Climate-Related Displacement: Potential Protections in U.S. Policy (USCRI, July 2023) [text via ReliefWeb]

Journal articles:

"Barking up the tree wrongly? How national security strategies frame climate and other environmental change as security issues," Political Geography, vol. 105 (Aug. 2023) [open access]

"Drought exposure decreases altruism with salient group identities as key moderator," Nature Climate Change, Latest Articles, 24 July 2023 [open access]
- "[W]e examine altruism in survey experiments in a natural setting among refugees from Syria and Iraq."

"Environmental drivers of human migration in Sub-Saharan Africa," Global Sustainability, vol. 6 (2023) [open access]

"Environmental Non-Migration: Frameworks, Methods, and Cases," Topical collection of articles published in Regional Environmental Change (2021-2023) [access]
- The editorial provides an overview of the nine contributions, six of which are open access.

"A Human Rights Approach to Climate-Induced Displacement: A Case Study in Central America and Colombia," Michigan State International Law Review, vol. 31, no. 3 (2023) [full-text]

"Who Counts as a Climate Migrant?," Migration Information Source, 20 July 2023 [text]

Multimedia:

Climate Migration 101 (Changing Climate, Changing Migration Podcast Series, July 2023) [access]

Uprooted: How climate change is reshaping migration from Honduras (Up First Podcast Series, July 2023) [access]

Resource:

Environmental and Climate Mobilities Network [access]
- Launched in July 2023, this "transdisciplinary network connect[s] people working on migration and human im/mobility in the context of environmental and climate change."

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