07 September 2025

Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Short pieces:

Libya: Climate change pushes migrants toward new routes (InfoMigrants, Aug. 2025) [text]

Project Flow: Solarizing water systems for refugees and their hosts through innovative finance (UNHCR Blog, Aug. 2025) [text]

Wildfire displacement is on the rise: 2025 sends a clear warning (IDMC Blog, Aug 2025) [text]

Reports:  

Climate Change, Food Security, and Migration Report (International Organization for Migration, June 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]
- Focuses on Libya.

Climate Impacts Return and Displacement in Afghanistan: Research Brief (UNHCR, May 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Climate-Change Vulnerability and Climate Migration: Evidence from Guatemala, SPA Policy Brief (American Univ., Aug. 2025) [text]

Forced to flee in a changing climate: How the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is addressing climate and disaster displacement across the Asia Pacific Region (IFRC, Aug. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

The intersection of mobility, environmental and climate change, and conflict in the East and Horn of Africa: A synthesis of the existing knowledge and remaining research gaps (Mixed Migration Centre, Aug. 2025) [text]

"Waiting for God" Flood Displacement and Planned Relocation of Fisherfolk in Saint-Louis, Senegal (Human Rights Watch, Aug. 2025) [access]
- Also available in French.

Journal articles:

"Combining mental health and climate-smart agricultural interventions to improve food security in humanitarian settings: study protocol for the THRIVE cluster-randomized controlled trial with mothers in Nakivale refugee settlement, Uganda," Trials, 26:331 (Sept. 2025) [open access]

"The elusive climate migrant: symbolic geographies in migration studies," Comparative Migration Studies, 13:64 (Aug. 2025) [open access]

"Empowering Ukrainian refugees in Seattle: integrating hazard preparedness education into resettlement research," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 2 Sept. 2025 [open access]

"Statehood and the Protection of Persons in the Context of Sea-Level Rise: the International Law Association’s Contribution," Yearbook of International Disaster Law, vol. 6 (2023; posted online Aug. 2025) [open access]

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