Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Short pieces:

Crisis, Polycrisis and Global Disaster Governance (E-International Relations, May 2025) [text]

Legal Protections for Climate-Displaced Populations in Small Island Nations (Denver Journal of International Law & Policy Online Forum, April 2025) [text]

"Sea level rise will cause ‘catastrophic inland migration’, scientists warn," The Guardian, 20 May 2025 [text]

Sundarbans: Climate change, migration and mental health (Refugee Watch Online, May 2025) [text]

Reports: 

The duration of disaster displacement: a review of the state of knowledge (Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, May 2025) [text]

Foregrounding Displacement and Evacuations in the Proposed Treaty on the Protection of Persons in the Event of Disasters, Policy Brief, no. 17 (Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, May 2025) [access]

- Follow link for the policy brief and speed briefing with the authors.

Journal articles:

"Existing international laws and its insufficiency in the protection of climate refugees: The need for an alternative legal paradigm," Nnamdi Azikiwe Univ. Journal of International Law and Jurisprudence, vol. 16, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

"Flood fatalities and displacement influence human migration in floodplains of developing countries," Communications Earth & Environment, 6:319 (April 2025) [open access]

"The magnitude of climate change-induced migration: an overview of projections and a case for attribution," Frontiers in Climate, 18 May 2025 [open access]

- Focuses on Africa.

"Nets, not boxes: a critical typology of climate (im)mobilities policy clusters in oceanic states," Migration Studies, vol. 13, no. 2 (June 2025) [open access]

"Putting migration in context: a review of how theory and methods shape climate-induced migration research findings," Frontiers in Climate, 10 April 2025 [open access]

- See also earlier articles included in this research topic.

"Staying put: a comparative study of non-evacuation during environmental disasters," Environmental Research Letters, vol. 20, no. 5 (2025) [open access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters (15 May 2025)