Research Round Up: common but differentiated capabilities

by alex | Jun 21, 2016 | Climate Change, Climate Displacement, Climate Migration, News, Round Up, Uncategorized

Righting Climate Wrongs by Empowering Vulnerable Communities Joshua D. McBee Climate change is unfairly burden poorer countries and wealthy countries that have contributed the most tend to be affected the least. The responsibility for addressing the crisis is...

Research Round Up: To migrate or not to migrate that is the question-a case study from West Africa

by alex | Jun 21, 2016 | Climate Change, Climate Migration, News, Round Up, Uncategorized

The Impact of Vulnerability and Resilience to Environmental Changes on Mobility Patterns in West Africa Caroline Zickgraf, Sara Vigil, Florence de Longueville, Pierre Ozer, François Gemenne Migration can either be seen as a failure to adapt or as a positive vision of...

Research Round Up: Using mobile data to understand climate-induced migration patterns

by alex | Apr 18, 2016 | Climate Change, Climate Displacement, Climate Migration, Round Up, Uncategorized

Unveiling hidden migration and mobility patterns in climate stressed regions: A longitudinal study of six million anonymous mobile phone users in Bangladesh Xin Lu, David J. Wrathall, Pål Roe Sundsøy, Md. Nadiruzzaman, Erik Wetter, Asif Iqbal, Taimur Qureshi, Andrew...

Research Round Up: Wealth Migration- one possible solution to social injustice and climate change

by alex | Feb 29, 2016 | Climate Change, Climate Migration, Round Up, Uncategorized

Redistribution as social justice within the intersection of global governance and climate change mitigation Andrew M. Fischer Climate change mitigation must be accompanied by a genuine redistribution of benefits from high-income to low-income countries in order to...

Research Round Up: Humanitarian organisations role in preventing forced migration

by alex | Jan 21, 2016 | Climate Change, Climate Displacement, Climate Migration, News, Round Up, Uncategorized

Environmental Migration as Humanitarian Challenge Kerstin Rosenow-Williams Humanitarian organisations are often the first groups on site to respond to local needs and are as such key players in addressing environmental migration as a humanitarian challenge....

Research Round Up: Climate migration from urban areas – the empirical gap

by alex | Dec 18, 2015 | Climate Change, Climate Displacement, Climate Migration, Round Up, Uncategorized

Climate change as a migration driver from rural and urban Mexico Raphael J Nawrotzki , Lori M Hunter, Daniel M Runfola and Fernando Riosmena Climate change and how it shapes migration patterns has previously only focused on migration from rural areas. However,...