30 August 2024

Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Short pieces:

Addressing the Legal Void: The Urgent Need for India to Revise Its Laws for Climate Migrants (RLI Blog, Aug. 2024) [text]

As Extreme Weather Spurs Global Displacement, Migration is Part of the Solution (IOM, March 2024) [text]

Climate Change and ‘Voluntary Immobility’ (NYU Gallatin Global Fellowship in Human Rights Blog, Aug. 2024) [text]

New open access books:

Climate-Related Human Mobility in Asia and the Pacific: Interdisciplinary Rights-Based Approaches
(Springer, Aug. 2024) [open access]
- "Bringing together voices from the Asia-Pacific Academic Network on Disaster Displacement, [this] book examines issues that are immediately relevant in countries where they are living and working. In addition to academic perspective, the chapters also bring perspectives from positions held in national human rights institutions and government. They bring insight into lived experience and policy processes, seeking to avert, minimize, and address displacement, including through general disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation initiatives, as well as specific initiatives around emergency preparedness for response and planned relocation and resettlement. The chapters examine diverse forms of human mobility, including displacement, planned relocation, and forced immobility. The combination of studies focusing on both sudden onset and slower onset movement is also distinctive."

Nordic Approaches to Climate-Related Human Mobility (Routledge, June 2024) [open access]
- "[T]his collection is the first to address climate‑related human mobility in the Nordic region. It is a timely and much needed collection, which brings together leading and emerging voices from both academia and practice in a single volume, spanning policy and geographical breadth. Its chapters cover both regional approaches to the global phenomenon of climate mobility, such as the traditional role of the Nordic states as norm entrepreneurs and their representation in multilateral fora, and on‑the‑ground climate impacts unique to this region and their localised responses. Case studies include judicial decision‑making as it relates to climate‑related migration, insights into the local communication of climate risk, changes to Nordic development and climate policy, as well as climate‑related mobilities of Nordic Indigenous Peoples."

Reports:

Addressing the Protection Gap: Human Mobility and the Climate Crisis in International Frameworks (ACT Alliance & Bread for the World, July 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

Conflict, Displacement, and Social Assistance in Three Districts of Ethiopia, BASIC Research Working Paper, no. 27 (Institute of Development Studies, May 2024) [text]

Journal articles:

"Causal discovery reveals complex patterns of drought-induced displacement," iScience, vol. 27, no. 9 (Sept. 2024) [open access]
- Focuses on Somalia.

"Climate change-induced hazard risks and migration in Bangladesh: A case study," Current Research in Environmental Sustainability, vol. 7 (2024) [open access]

"Deciphering climate-induced displacement in Somalia: A remote sensing perspective," PLoS ONE 19(8): e0304202 (Aug. 2024) [open access]

"Enhancing Protection of 'Climate Refugees' in Destination Hubs: A Comparative Analysis of Legal Mechanisms and Governance Challenges in the United States and India," Harvard Human Rights Journal, vol. 37, no. 2 (2024) [full-text]

"Environmental migration and non-migration: Learning through an intergenerational lens," Migration Studies, vol. 12, no. 4 (Dec. 2024) [open access]

"Just Relocation: Climate Change and the Opportunities and Limitations of the Uniform Relocation Act," Harvard Human Rights Journal, vol. 37, no. 2 (2024) [full-text]
- Focuses on the US.

"A missing link? The role of international organizations in climate-related planned relocation," Climate Policy, Latest Articles, 16 Aug. 2024 [open access]

"Protecting Climate Migrants Through Regional Policies: Time to Move Beyond International Treaty Law," Cambridge Law Review, vol. 9, no. 1 (2024) [full-text]

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