The State of Environmental Migration 2018: A review of 2017 (2024)

The State of Environmental Migration 2015 A Review of 2014

Asia-Pacific regional synthesis Climate change, displacement and the right to education

2023

Are managed retreat programs successful and just? A global mapping of success typologies, justice dimensions, and trade-offs

Global Environmental Change

Les migrations liées à la sécheresse et la désertification- les études de cas de Mali et Burkina Faso

2013

The article compares the state of migration linked to drought and dessertification in Burkina Faso and Mali, reviews current international and domestic policies and makes recommendations. Cette article fait un comparaison entre les états des migrations liées à la sécheresse et la désertification au Burkina Faso et à Mali, en examinant les politiques actuels internationales et domestiques, et en formulant des recommandations politiques

Local Responses to Climate Change and Disaster-related Migration in Solomon Islands

Social Dimensions of Climate Change: Pacific Series, 2023

Planned relocation in Asia and the Pacific

Twenty Years of the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement, 2018

Promising policy developments are underway in Asia and the Pacific to address climate and disaster-related displacement, yet the deeper governance structures required to embed protection are not yet in place, especially for planned relocation. There needs to be greater emphasis on assisting governments to set up inter-ministerial structures equipped to deal with the complex cross-cutting issues that planned relocation involves.

Toward a Typology of Displacements in the Context of Slow-Onset Environmental Degradation. An Analysis of Hazards, Policies, and Mobility Patterns

Sustainability

The aim of this paper is to develop a typology of displacement in the context of slow-onset environmental degradation linked to climate change (desertification, droughts and increasing temperatures, sea level rise (SLR), loss of biodiversity, land/forest degradation, and glacial retreat). We differentiate regions under environmental threat according to their social vulnerabilities, mobility patterns, and related policies, and identify twelve types of vulnerability/policy/mobility combinations. The paper is based on a synthesis of 321 published case studies on displacement and slow-onset environmental degradation, representing a comprehensive collection of the literature since the 1970s. We observe that vulnerability is especially critical in small island and coastal contexts, as well as in mountainous zones and desert regions. Migration processes are often not visible in areas affected by environmental degradation. When they do occur, they remain mostly internal and oriented towards...

Statelessness and environmental displacement

Existing work in the field of statelessness identifies a gap in the institutional mechanisms available to address the needs of stateless people at an international and domestic level. This gap is particularly significant for stateless people who are also ‘environmentally-displaced’ or at risk of environmental displacement by way of disaster, environmental degradation, development and/or climate change. Stateless people or ‘non-citizens’ often reside in areas which are highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change and have few options available to them to mitigate its impacts. Research has begun to consider the implications of climate change and statelessness in the context of low lying islands such as, Kiribati, Tuvulu, Vanuatu and the Maldives, however this research relates to how whole nations may become stateless if their lands become uninhabitable. A much larger research gap exists in relation to how existing stateless populations residing within nations – such as stateless people in Bangladesh, Sri Langka, Myanmar and Malaysia – are affected by environmental change, and how their status as non-citizens affects their access to services, ‘climate finance’, development assistance, humanitarian aid and other support designed to help communities recover from disasters and facilitate adaptation to climate change.

Human Security, flooding and migration amongst fishing-farming communities around the Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia

On the Move: Critical Migration Themes in Southeast Asia , 2013

This book chapter considers the human security of fishing–farming communities living around the Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia, whose lives are intimately shaped by the ebb and flow of the lake’s seasonal flooding. The chapter examines in particular how the different types of flood regime (regular and irregular) modify fishing- and farming-based livelihoods and the role that migration plays in reducing household vulnerability, in particular in the context of fisheries decline, agricultural intensification, and long-standing inequities in access to land and natural resources. The chapter reveals that migration is, nowadays, an important means that households adopt to reduce vulnerability in the communities visited, yet both government policies and development interventions rarely recognize the significant role that migration plays. The chapter highlight the need for a better understanding of the potential synergies of policies on agriculture, fisheries and migration, which at present are fragmented.

Introduction: Climate change and planned retreat

Global Views on Climate Relocation and Social Justice, 2021