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Towards a global governance system to protect climate refugees

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Estimates suggest that more than 200 million people could be displaced this century due to climate change. This paper suggests that current institutions are not adequately prepared and recommends a global governance blueprint to avert the potential crisis.

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How should aid funding respond to African urbanisation?: ( M. Herrmann;H. Khan / Munich Personal RePEc Archive , 2008); Rapid urbanisation is a fact of life even in the least developed countries where the lion’s share of the population presently lives in rural areas and will continue to do so for decades to co...
Realistic planning for future urban growth calls for explicit consideration of the needs of the poor: ( United Nations Population Fund , 2008); In 2008, for the first time in history, more than half the world's population, 3.3 billion people, will be living in urban areas. By 2030, this is expected to swell to almost 5 billion. Many of the ne...
Mapping environmental change in Africa: evidence from satellite images: ( United Nations [UN] Environment Programme , 2008); This African atlas is the first publication to use satellite photos to depict environmental change in each and every African country during the last thirty years. Through an array of satellite imag...
How should violence be prevented in South Africa?: ( R. Fuller;V. Williams;N. Jaynes;Z. Nkongolo / Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, South Africa , 2008); In May 2008, South Africa was shaken by an outbreak of a wave of violence characterised by an intensity and fierceness previously unknown in this young democracy and reminiscent of apartheid bloods...
How to improve services and protection for displaced people with disabilities: ( Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children , 2008); Persons with disabilities remain among the most hidden, neglected and socially excluded of all displaced people today. People with disabilities are often literally and programmatically “invis...
Is South Africa protecting the rights of non nationals?: ( The Consortium for Refugees and Migrants in South Africa (CoRMSA) , 2008); In South Africa non-nationals, refugees, asylum seekers, and other immigrants are often excluded from the services, welfare, and dignity they are guaranteed by South African law and constitutional ...
Linking poverty and disaster vulnerability in the Caribbean: ( M. Attzs / World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER) , 2008); The dislocation of households coupled with the loss of livelihoods caused by natural disaster, which usually affects the poor disproportionately, provides a push factor for migration and future rem...
Conducting participatory assessments with refugees: ( United Nations [UN] High Commission for Refugees , 2006); Refugees, internally displaced persons and returnees must be at the centre of decision-making concerning their protection and well-being. In order to gain a deeper understanding of the protection p...
Establishing an Islamic protection framework for refugees: ( K. Zaat / United Nations [UN] High Commission for Refugees , 2007); Despite Muslim states hosting large numbers of refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs), the inherent protection and assistance afforded to forced migrants at Islamic Law has la...
A changing UNHCR terminology: ( J. Crisp / United Nations [UN] High Commission for Refugees , 2008); Until the 1990s, UNHCR rarely made any reference to the issue of international migration in its policy documents and public statements. From the early 1990’s onwards, however, UNHCR's traditiona...