13 February 2024

Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Opportunities:

CFP: Symposium on Climate Change and Migration, Dublin, 2 May 2024 [info]
- Submit abstracts by 28 February 2024.

Call for submissions: Climate Mobility Africa Insights [info]
- Contributions sought for Climate Mobility Africa Research Network's online policy brief series. The deadline is 6 March 2024.

Short pieces:

The Australia-Tuvalu deal shows why we need a global framework for climate relocations (The Conversation, Jan. 2024) [text]

How the ICJ Could Shape Protection for People Displaced in the Context of Climate Change (RID Blog, Jan. 2024) [text]

Trapped by Denialism: How Beliefs, Ideologies and Special Interests Shape Trapped Climate Adaptation Mobility Strategies in Coastal Louisiana, USA (RID Blog, Jan. 2024) [text]

New open access book:

At Risk of Deprivation: The Multidimensional Well-Being Impacts of Climate Migration and Immobility in Peru (Springer, Oct. 2023) [open access]
- "This open access book examines how and why various forms of climate (im)mobilities can impact people's objective and subjective well-being. Worsening climate impacts are forcing subsistence farmers worldwide to decide between staying or leaving their homes. This mixed methods study analyzes cases of climate-related migration, displacement, relocation, and immobility in Peru's coastal, highland, and rainforest regions. The results reveal that numerous farmers experienced profound and often negative well-being impacts, regardless of whether they stayed or migrated. The higher the structural constraints, such as weak governance, and the more damaging the climate impacts were, the higher the risk of well-being declines. Additionally, the affected individuals often had limited agency and ability to mitigate losses. These findings challenge the notion of 'migration as adaptation' and emphasize the importance of safeguarding the human rights and security of those affected while addressing loss and damage."

Reports & journal articles:

Anticipatory Action in Communities Hosting Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons: An Assessment of Current Approaches, IWMI Working Paper, no. 212 (International Water Management Institute, Dec. 2023) [text]

"Climate Change and Human Mobility in the Global South," Chapter in Palgrave Handbook of South–South Migration and Inequality (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) [open access]

"Defining, collecting, and sharing perishable disaster data," Disasters, vol. 48, no. 1 (Jan. 2024) [open access]

"Global Warming and Climate Refugees: Facts, 'Alternative Facts' and the State of Emergency," Chapter in Configurations of Migration: Knowledges – Imaginaries – Media (De Gruyter, 2023) [open access]

Migration and climate change in the Arab region (UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia, Jan. 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

The multiple challenges from climate change, urbanization and forced displacement in Irbid Governorate, northwest Jordan (International Water Management Institute, Nov. 2023) [text]

Multimedia:

Are the Pacific’s Climate Migration Experiments a Preview for the World? (Changing Climate, Changing Podcast Series, Jan. 2024) [access]

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