by Alex Randall | Sep 4, 2012 | Climate Change, Climate Conflict, Climate Displacement, Climate Migration
This new paper in the Journal of Human Security looks critically at the prevailing narrative around climate change and conflict in Bangladesh. The paper questions the assumptions of the common narrative which suggests that climate change will lead to human...
by Alex Randall | Aug 28, 2012 | Climate Change, Climate Displacement, Climate Migration
The UN High Commission for Refugees has released a new report looking at legal protection issues around relocation. The report examines some of the challenges involved in protecting people whose relocation is linked to climate change. From the executive summary:...
by Alex Randall | Aug 24, 2012 | Climate Change, Climate Displacement, Climate Migration
The Policy Innovations blog has a new article on migration in the context of humanitarian disasters. It has some interesting insights on building legal protection for people who are displaced across a border by natural disasters. From the blog post: Humanitarian...
by Alex Randall | Jul 25, 2012 | Climate Change, Climate Displacement, Climate Migration
According to a new paper by Etienne Piguet the idea of migration linked to environmental change has appeared and disappeared several times in the history of migration studies. In this paper Piguet charts the history of the idea’s disapearence and reemergence,...
by Alex Randall | Jul 24, 2012 | Climate Change, Climate Displacement, Climate Migration
The Feinstein International Center has released a new report on climate change and humanitarian crises, concluding that we must move from a mindset where crisis and intervention is seen as exceptional to one where continually managing risk becomes normal and on-going....
