Search

Reset

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

Showing 21-25 of 25 results

Pages

  • Document

    Demographics and climate change: future trends and their policy implications for migration

    Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex, 2008
    This working paper seeks to explore the potential impact of future demographic and climate change on migration patterns in developing countries, in order to identify policy implications for international development and evidence gaps that could be plugged with appropriate new research.
  • Document

    Human tide: the real migration crisis

    Christian Aid, 2007
    The number of IDPs is expected to rise dramatically in the coming decades. And those already displaced look likely to be joined by at least equal numbers of people forced from their homes because of climate change. The case studies in this report spell out in human detail how major internal migration crises, caused by conflict, have already developed in Sudan, in Uganda and in Sri Lanka.
  • Document

    Expert seminar: migration and the environment

    International Organization for Migration, 2008
    Environmental degradation, climate change and migration are not new to the global community. However, managing these phenomena has become both more challenging and more critical to ensuring human security and sustainable development.
  • Document

    Climate change and forced migration

    Evaluation and Policy Analysis Unit, UNHCR, 2008
    Despite growing concern of the international community about the consequences of migration resulting from environmental deterioration, research on environment and migration remains limited. This paper sets out to understand the reasons why environmental factors have been neglected by migration studies, and proposes a new definition of population movements induced by environmental factors.
  • Document

    Unjust waters: climate change, flooding and the protection of poor urban communities: experiences from six African cities

    ActionAid International, 2007
    Six years ago, at the UN Millennium Summit, world leaders set a specific target for realising the right to adequate housing and ‘continuous improvement of living conditions’. However, in Africa climate change is already threatening that goal, causing massive rural-urban migration and bringing chronic flooding to the cities.

Pages