16 January 2026

Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Short pieces:

As Money Goes out for Climate-Related Loss and Damage, Displaced Communities Stand to Benefit (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Jan. 2026) [text]
- See also video recording of related event.

COP30 and displacement: Limited political momentum but strategic opportunities for 2026 (IDMC Blog, Dec. 2025) [text]

Disaster- and climate-related human mobility in the Americas: A decade of progress since the Nansen Initiative Protection Agenda (Nansen Initiative +10 Blog, Dec. 2025) [text]

The United Nations Conference on the Protection of Persons in the Event of Disasters (EJIL: Talk Blog, Jan. 2026) [text]

Reports & book chapters:

Adapting to change: climate displacement, gendered (women) challenges, and pathways to empowerment in Iraq, LSE Middle East Centre Paper, no. 101 (LSE Middle East Centre, Dec. 2025) [text]

"Beneath the Waves: The Ability of Artificial Islands to Generate Maritime Entitlements in Light of Sea Level Rise," Chapter in New Zealand Yearbook of International Law Online, vol. 21, no. 1 (Nov. 2025) [open access]

"Introduction: A research agenda for an evolving branch of law," Chapter in A Research Agenda for Disaster Law (Edward Elgar, Nov. 2025) [free full-text]

Journal articles:

"Climate Displacement and the European Refugee ‘Crisis’ Narrative," International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique, Latest Articles, 1 Dec. 2025 [open access]

"Displacement in the ICJ's Advisory Opinion on Climate Change," Environmental Policy and Law, OnlineFirst, 12 Dec. 2025 [open access]

"Economic burden of drought using the life satisfaction approach: A case study of slum dwellers in southeast Iran," PLoS One 21(1): e0340300 (Jan. 2026) [open access]

"Fleeing the Climate: The Need for Protection of Climate Refugees in the Light of International Law," Pace International Law Review, vol. 37, no. 2 (2025) [full-text]

"From threat to justice: rethinking the securitisation of climate-induced migration from the Global South," The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs and Policy Studies, vol. 114, no. 6 (2025) [ResearchGate]

"Rethinking vulnerability and humanitarian assistance in the pastoral drylands: insights from northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia," Disasters, vol. 50, no. 1 (Jan. 2026) [open access]
- Note: Part of a special collection in progress on "Resilience in protracted crises: navigating uncertainty in the drylands." 

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