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Searching with a thematic focus on Climate change poverty and vulnerability, Climate change, Migration in climate change, Climate Change Adaptation

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  • Organisation

    micle

    The relevance of environmental and climate change for migration decisions is studied by the members of micle research project based on the neighbouring Sahelian countries Mali and Senegal.
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    Climate change, vulnerability and human mobility: perspectives of refugees from the east and Horn of Africa

    United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security, 2012
    This study aims to understand the extent to which refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) have perceived, experienced and responded to climatic variability and long-term negative climatic change in the east and Horn of Africa.
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    The state of Arab cities 2012: challenges of urban transition

    United Nations Human Settlements Programme, 2012
    This regional report by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) highlights that, although urban slums are decreasing and urban innovations are being introduced, the Arab region still faces major challenges, including high youth unemployment rates and climate change.
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    Climate change, environmental degradation and migration

    International Organization for Migration, 2012
    As part of the International Organization for Migration’s (IOM) annual 'International Dialogue on Migration', the topic 'Climate change, environmental degradation and migration' was selected as the focus of a workshop held in Geneva, Switzerland, in March 2011.
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    Climate change, migration, and conflict

    Center for American Progress Action Fund, 2012
    This report is the first in a series of papers from the Center for American Progress that examine the nexus of climate change, migration and conflict, and its implications for United States foreign policy and national security.
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    Climate change and migration: report of the Transatlantic study team

    The German Marshall Fund of the United States, 2010
    Environmental change is one of a larger set of factors that affect human migration and displacement worldwide. Climate change and variability will particularly affect migration in and from highly vulnerable areas like low-lying islands and deltas, coastal areas, areas dependent on glacial-fed water systems and areas subject to persistent drought.
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    Human Development Report 2009. Overcoming barriers: human mobility and development

    United Nations Development Programme, 2009
    This report explores how better policies towards human mobility can enhance human development. It lays out the case for governments to reduce restrictions on movement within and across their borders, so as to expand human choices and freedoms.
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    In search of shelter: mapping the effects of climate change on human migration and displacement

    CARE International, 2009
    The impacts of climate change are already causing migration and displacement. Although the exact number of people that will be on the move by mid-century is uncertain, the scope and scale could vastly exceed anything that has occurred before.
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    Migration, climate change and the environment

    International Organization for Migration, 2009
    Environmental factors have long had an impact on global migration flows. Although there is limited reliable data on the subject, the scale of such flows, both internal and cross-border, is expected to rise significantly over the next decades as a result of climate change.
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    Climate change and displacement

    Forced Migration Review, 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 one of the major policy challenges of this century.

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