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Managing the impacts of climate change on human migration

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Climate and environmentally induced migration may be one of the major policy challenges of this century. This issue of Forced Migration Review, made up of 31 articles, analyses a range of climate and migration related issues which focus on case studies in Central Asia, Kenya, Kiribati, Ghana, Alaska and Bangladesh, among others.

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Views on the current financial crisis from the global South: ( Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK , 2008); The global financial crisis is already beginning to have an impact on the ‘real economy’ in poorer countries around the world. However, the debate in the west about the impact of...
Climate change and migration: ( V.O. Kolmannskog / Norwegian Refugee Council , 2008); With the certainty of global warming, the term ‘climate refugees’ is gaining popularity in public discourse. The term climate refugees implies a mono-causality that one rarely finds in ...
Are IDP camps in Darfur militarized?: ( C. Khan / Small Arms Survey , 2008); Tensions in internally displaced person (IDP) and refugee camps in Darfur and on the Chadian border have given rise, in recent years, to claims that they are ‘militarized’. To date, lit...
Mexico's narrow demographic window of opportunity: ( American Association of Retired Persons International Section , 2008); Mexico is in the midst of an unprecedented demographic transition that is changing the size and age structure of its population Over the past three decades, lower mortality rates and higher life...
Planning and managing the impacts of climate change on human migration: ( M. Couldrey;M. Herson / , 2008); In response to growing climate change pressures on landscapes and livelihoods, people are moving and adapting. Evidence points towards climate and environmentally induced migration becoming ...
Security ,Stability and Development- a guide for the Great Lakes Pact: ( D. Clancy;O. Bueno;K. Ridderbos / Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre , 2008); The Great Lakes region has one of the largest displaced populations in the whole world with about two million refugees and ten million IDPs. Most of these displacements are due to violent co...
The impacts of livelihood dynamics in three fruit-growing settlements Vietnam’s Mekong Delta: ( X.T. Hoang;T.P. Dinh;T.H. Nguyen / International Institute for Environment and Development , 2008); This article discusses the reasons and implications of the decline in poverty rate among fruit farmers in the rural Mekong Delta, as compared to all other rural households in the region and in Vietnam...
Focusing on the health risk behaviour of migrant workers and its influence on the HIV epidemic in the semi arid tropics of Andhra Pradesh: ( B V J. Gandhi;M C S. Bantilan;D. Parthasarathy / World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER) , 2008); This paper discusses the livelihood dynamics in the fragile landscape of the semi arid tropics of Andhra Pradesh. The area is home to the poorest of the poor who live in conditions of persis...
Indian men employed in London's hospitality sector: ( A. Batnitzky;L. Mcdowell;S. Dyer / School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford , 2008); The migration of middle-class Indian men working in the hospitality sector in west London illustrates the intersection of gender and social class in organising both who migrates and what types of l...
Child perspectives on migration: ( Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex , 2008); Much of the recent research on child migration has focused on children who face particularly dire situations, including those who are coerced into migration and face highly exploitative conditions ...