Conceptualizing discourses on environmental refugees at the United Nations
This paper conceptualizes the absence of multilateral protection for environmental refugees. It does this by critically scrutinizing interviews conducted with United Nations ambassadors and senior diplomats in 2004 (n = 45) in a number of key policy-making locations. These interviews reveal that an absence of policy on environmental refugees has been reproduced by discursive politics … Continue reading Conceptualizing discourses on environmental refugees at the United Nations →
Migration and environmental hazards
Losses due to natural hazards (e.g., earthquakes, hurricanes) and technological hazards (e.g., nuclear waste facilities, chemical spills) are both on the rise. One response to hazard-related losses is migration, with this paper offering a review of research examining the association between migration and environmental hazards. Using examples from both developed and developing regional contexts, the … Continue reading Migration and environmental hazards →
Migration and climate change: Examining thresholds of change to guide effective adaptation decision-making
The implications of environmental change for migration are little understood. Migration as a response to climate change could be seen as a failure of in situ adaptation methods, or migration could be alternatively perceived as a rational component of creative adaptation to environmental risk. This paper frames migration as part of an adaptation response to … Continue reading Migration and climate change: Examining thresholds of change to guide effective adaptation decision-making →
Environmental refugees? Classifying human migrations caused by environmental change
What distinguishes environmental refugees from other refugeesor other migrants? Are all environmental refugees alike? This essay develops a classification to begin to answer these questions and facilitate future policies and research on environmental refugees. Environmental refugees may have considerable control over the decision to migrate, but this varies by the type of environmental disruption. The … Continue reading Environmental refugees? Classifying human migrations caused by environmental change →
