Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Short pieces:

Call to Action on Climate Change and Forced Displacement IDRC Research Chairs Network on Forced Displacement: 2023 Global Refugee Forum (LERRN, Dec. 2023) [text]

Five things to consider on the climate-refugees nexus (Development for Peace Blob, Dec. 2023) [text]

Homeward bound: How migrants seek out familiar climates (VoxEU Column, Jan. 2024) [text]

- Focuses on the US.

Loss and Damage and Human Mobility at COP 28: An Emerging Architecture to Avert, Minimize and Address Displacement? (RLI Blog, Dec. 2023) [text]

Reporting Back from the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference (PDD Update, Dec. 2023) [text]

The Security Problem with Climate Migration isn’t the Migration (Just Security Blog, Jan. 2024) [text]

Reports:

Climate change impacts and cross-border displacement: International refugee law and UNHCR’s mandate (UNHCR, Dec. 2023) [text]

The link between disaster displacement and migration intentions, JRC Technical Report (European Commission, Jan. 2024) [text]

Options for humanitarian packaging reuse, repurposing and recycling (Joint Initiative for Sustainable Humanitarian Assistance Packaging Waste Management, July 2023) [text via ReliefWeb]

Protection of persons displaced across borders in the context of disasters and the adverse effects of climate change (Platform on Disaster Displacement & UNHCR, Dec. 2023) [text]

Journal articles:

"Climate Change and Cross-Border Displacement: What the Courts, the Administration, and Congress Can Do to Improve Options for the United States," Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law, vol. 56 (Forthcoming, 2024) [preprint]

"Drought and Human Mobility in Africa," Earth’s Future, vol. 11, no. 12 (Dec. 2023) [open access]

"Drought exposure decreases altruism with salient group identities as key moderator," Nature Climate Change, vol. 13, no. 8 (2023) [open access]

- "Survey responses were collected for refugees from Syria and Iraq residing both inside and outside of refugee camps in Turkey during 2017." See also related blog post.

"Exploring temporal and topical dynamics of research on climate/environment–migration nexus: A critical comparative perspective," Migration Studies, vol. 11, no. 4 (Dec. 2023) [open access]

PNAS, vol. 121, no. 3 (Jan. 2024) [open access]

- Includes a special feature on "Migration and Sustainability." See also related post on The Conversation.

"Revisiting 'Refugee' in a Changing Climate: How Migrants Impacted by Climate Change and the Transboundary Movement of Hazardous Waste Fit into Existing Refugee Policy," Seton Hall Law Review, vol. 53, no. 4 (2023) [full-text]

Related posts:

- News: Climate Mobility Hub Launched (7 Dec. 2023)

- Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters (6 Dec. 2023)