FMR 49 - From the Editors
An introductory note on FMR 49, 'Disasters and displacement in a changing climate', from the Editors.
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Climate change and disasters (Forced Migration Review 49)
In light of the projected increase in the frequency and intensity of disasters associated with climate change, the number of people displaced in the context of disasters will inevitably rise...
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20 of 49 episodesFMR 49 - Foreward
In order to make progress on disasters, climate change and human mobility, it is essential to bring together different strands of the discus...
FMR 49 - The Nansen Initiative: building consensus on displacement in disaster contexts
The Nansen Initiative consultative process has identified a toolbox of potential policy options to prevent, prepare for and respond to the c...
FMR 49 - National Adaptation Plans and human mobility
In order to avoid displacement when possible, displacement and human mobility issues need to be better integrated within national and region...
FMR 49 - The state of the evidence
Researchers have much to do, not only to understand climate- and disaster-induced migration but also to transmit their understanding for the...
FMR 49 - The necessity for an ethnographic approach in Peru
A movement of people is rarely explained by environmental or climatic factors alone. Therefore an analysis which does not take into consider...
FMR 49 - An integrated focus
The key to successfully addressing the challenges of environmental, climatic and natural disasters is integrating migration concerns – inclu...
FMR 49 - West Africa: a testing ground for regional solutions
West Africa has a very mobile population and high vulnerability to natural hazards. It also, however, has a number of regional cooperation a...
FMR 49 - Development and displacement risks
The impact of climate change induces systemic patterns of socio-economic erosion that also affect the dynamics of disaster displacement and...
FMR 49 - Developing temporary protection in Africa
Formalised temporary protection arrangements in Africa could significantly improve access to territory and human rights for people displaced...
FMR 49 - Climate effects on nomadic pastoralist societies
Oman and Mongolia reflect the modern climatic and social challenges to mobile pastoral livelihoods.
FMR 49 - Guidance for ‘managed’ relocation
The international community has been slow to develop climate change-specific instruments to guide the relocation process beyond those that r...
FMR 49 - Preparing for planned relocation
Preparing for planned relocation
FMR 49 - Lessons from planned relocation and resettlement in the past
Placing contemporary deliberations about relocation within a longer historical and intellectual framework reveals unexpected connections and...
FMR 49 - Post-disaster resettlement in urban Bolivia
Post-disaster resettlement programmes can be unsuitable and ineffective, often exacerbating the vulnerability of people to the effects of cl...
FMR 49 - Focusing on climate-related internal displacement
Global attention should place a primary focus on the application of best practice and the development of innovative initiatives to solve cli...
FMR 49 - Brazil’s draft law for environmental migrants
Brazil is developing a long-term solution for filling a legislative gap affecting environmental migrants.
FMR 49 - Disasters, displacement and a new framework in the Americas
There is a startling range of positive examples of national law, policy and practice all across the Americas that states have used to respon...
FMR 49 - Temporary protection arrangements to fill a gap in the protection regime
Predictable measures are needed to provide protection for people displaced across borders by disasters, where there is currently a gap.
FMR 49 - Refugees, climate change and international law
How can the category of ‘climate refugee’ be considered within international law in the 21st century?