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Climate change and disasters (Forced Migration Review 49)

FMR 49 - From the Editors

An introductory note on FMR 49, 'Disasters and displacement in a changing climate', from the Editors.

FMR 49 - Foreward

In order to make progress on disasters, climate change and human mobility, it is essential to bring together different strands of the discussion to develop a comprehensive response that also anticipates future challenges associated with climate change.

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 challenges of cross-border displacement in disaster contexts, including the effects of climate change.

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 regional adaptation planning processes.

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 use of policymakers and practitioners.

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 consideration the cultural consequences of climate change for affected societies is incomplete.

FMR 49 - An integrated focus

The key to successfully addressing the challenges of environmental, climatic and natural disasters is integrating migration concerns – including displacement – into all climate change, disaster risk reduction and development policies and frameworks.

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 agreements and may therefore be a useful testing ground for addressing cross-border disaster displacement.

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 that require parallel responses.

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 across borders by disasters. Such arrangements must adhere to states’ existing protection obligations.

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 relate to displacement generally.

FMR 49 - Preparing for planned relocation

Preparing for planned relocation

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 climate change.

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 climate-related internal displacement, rather than on grappling with the far rarer movements of people across borders.

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 respond to the migratory consequences of disasters.

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?

FMR 49 - Displacement as a consequence of climate change mitigation policies

Climate change mitigation policies and ‘green solutions’, such as biofuels, are also creating displacement.

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