by Alex Randall | Jan 20, 2014 | Climate Change, Climate Conflict, Climate Displacement, Climate Migration, Moving Stories
Alex Randall The Latin American region is one of the most vulnerable to climate change. Many of its countries are located in the hurricane belt; others depend on the thaw of the snow and ice deposits in the Andes to supply water to their urban and agricultural...
by Alex Randall | Sep 13, 2013 | Climate Change, Climate Conflict, Climate Displacement, Climate Migration
The Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) is a long standing member of the UK Climate Change and Migration Coalition. EJF is a UK based non-profit organisation working internationally to protect the environment and defend human rights. In this post EJF director Steve...
by Alex Randall | May 1, 2013 | Climate Change, Climate Conflict, Climate Displacement, Climate Migration, Hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones, Moving Stories
Alex Randall The Philippines battles with high levels of poverty and inequality. The proportion of households living below the official poverty line has declined very slowly and unevenly in the past four decades, and poverty reduction has been much slower than in...
by Alex Randall | Oct 30, 2012 | Climate Change, Climate Conflict, Climate Displacement, Climate Migration
From the executive summary: “This year’s World Disasters Report focuses on forced migration and on the people forcibly displaced by conflict, political upheaval, violence, disasters, climate change and development projects, whose numbers are increasing...
by Alex Randall | Oct 9, 2012 | Climate Change, Climate Conflict, Climate Displacement, Climate Migration
Security is a complex frame because it has several different meanings. Presenting migrants (and refugees) as a threat to personal security and existing cultural identities is a tactic that anti-immigration and nationalist advocacy groups have perfected (along with the...
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...
