IDMC Case Study – Protracted disaster displacement in Japan
Case Study Series Protracted Disaster Displacement This Japan case study is the first of a global series addressing a significant gap in awareness and knowledge about people caught in protracted and chronic displacement situations in the context of disasters and environmental change. Recovery Postponed The long-term plight of people displaced by the 2011 Great East … Continue reading IDMC Case Study – Protracted disaster displacement in Japan →
Environmental Displacement and Environmental Migration: Blurred Boundaries Require Integrated Policies
by Michaela Hynie, York University; Prateep Nayak, University of Waterloo, Teresa Gomes & Ifrah Abdillah, University of Toronto [RRN/CRS Policy Brief Submitted to the Government of Canada, December 2, 2016] Executive Summary As the pace and severity of environmental change increase, environmental migration is being recognized as a necessary and potentially beneficial adaptation to change, … Continue reading Environmental Displacement and Environmental Migration: Blurred Boundaries Require Integrated Policies →
Definir la migracio?n por motivos medioambientales
Todos los estudios sobre el tema contienen expresiones y conceptos como migración por motivos medioambientales, migración inducida por el cambio climático, refugiados medioambientales o ecológicos, migrantes debido al cambio climático y migrantes forzados por motivos medioambientales. El principal motivo de la falta de definición sobre la migración causada por la degradación o el cambio medioambiental … Continue reading Definir la migracio?n por motivos medioambientales →
Moving Stories report: The voices of people who move in the context of environmental change
We have just released the Moving Stories report: http://climatemigration.org.uk/moving-stories-report-the-voices-of-people-who-move-in-the-context-of-environmental/ The report contains testimonies from across the world from people who have an environmental dimension to their displacement or decision to migrate. We hope the report will give a sense of the experiences of people who move in this context, as well as exploring this complex … Continue reading Moving Stories report: The voices of people who move in the context of environmental change →
Resources on legal protection for people who move in the context of environmental change
During 2013 the UK Climate Change and Migration Coalition (UKCCMC) held series of events to debate and discuss legal protection for people who move in the context of environmental change. During the events and workshops we collected feedback from a huge range of participants. The two documents are the result the thinking and feedback that … Continue reading Resources on legal protection for people who move in the context of environmental change →
Annotated Bibliography on Nature-Society Relations In & Of International Borders
Dear RRN Members, I hope this message finds you well. We have been working on an annotated bibliography on “Nature-Society Relations in and of International Borders” with a longer-term goal of producing a formal, peer-reviewed literature review on the subject. This project is part of a larger RRN Cluster on Environmental Displacement and has been … Continue reading Annotated Bibliography on Nature-Society Relations In & Of International Borders →
Environmentally displaced people: Understanding linkages between environmental change, livelihoods and forced migration
This policy brief provides an incisive overview of environmentally induced displacement, arguing for a more nuanced analysis of the problem that moves beyond the discourse of environmental refugees and which is based on concrete data, as well as calling for substantial reform of existing protection mechanisms to incorporate the environmentally displaced in a meaningful way.
Protection and the role of legal and normative frameworks
Protection and the role of legal and normative frameworks. In F. Laczko & C. Aghazarm (Eds.), Migration, environment and climate change: Assessing the evidence (pp. 285-441). Geneva: IOM.
Protecting people displaced by climate change: Some conceptual challenges
Protecting people displaced by climate change: Some conceptual challenges. In J. McAdam (Ed.), Climate change and displacement: Multidisciplinary perspectives.
Protecting environmentally displaced people: Developing the capacity of legal and normative frameworks
Protecting environmentally displaced people: Developing the capacity of legal and normative frameworks. Research Report. Oxford: Refugee Studies Centre.
