31 August 2023

Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Reports & short pieces:

Best Practices on Protection of Persons Crossing Borders due to Disasters, Environmental Degradation and Climate Change in the Eastern Caribbean (IOM, June 2023) [text]

Climate Mobility Africa Insights (Climate Mobility Africa Research Network) [access]
-  "[A] collection of policy briefs and fact sheets, providing up-to-date analysis of key law and policy issues relating to climate mobility in Africa." Available in English and French. See also related news release.

Disastrous Displacement: The Long-Run Impacts of Landslides, Policy Research Working Paper, no. 10535 (World Bank, Aug. 2023) [text]
- Focuses on Uganda.

Helping People Displaced by Climate Change in International Law (G20 Interfaith Forum, Aug. 2023) [text]

Integrating displaced populations into national climate change policy and planning (IOM & UNEP, Aug. 2023) [text via ReliefWeb]

Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons: Climate Change and Internal Displacement (Climate Refugees, June 2023) [text via ReliefWeb]

"We left after losing everything": The impact of drought on climate-related displacement in Ethiopia and Somalia (Mixed Migration Centre, Aug. 2023) [text]

Journal articles:

"Explaining Climate Change Induced Human Mobility: Revisiting Traditional and Emerging Migration Theories in the Wake of Regularising Climate Change Induced Human Mobility under International Law," Acta Humana, vol. 11, no. 1 (2023) [open access]

"A future agenda for research on climate change and human mobility," International Migration, Early View, 14 Aug. 2023 [open access]

"In Support of the Debate on the Terminology Related to the Terms Climate Refugees, Climate Migrants, Environmentally Displaced Persons and Similar Terms," EU and Comparative Law Issues and Challenges Series, vol. 7 (2023) [open access]

"Introduction: Environmental (im)mobilities: Improving the evidence base for effective policy making," International Migration, Early View, 29 Aug. 2023 [open access]

"Migration and climate change: The role of social protection," Climate Risk Management, vol. 39 (2023) [open access]

"Postcolonial lessons and migration from climate change: ongoing injustice and hope," npj Climate Action, 2:22 (Aug. 2023) [open access]

"Research in environmentally induced human mobility: an analysis of methodological and theoretical dimensions," International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management, EarlyCite, 27 June 2023 [open access]

Multimedia:

Providing Refuge for Climate Refugees in International Law, 10 Aug. 2023 [access]

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