A5001632597- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Migration and Labor Dynamics
- Agricultural risk and resilience
- Island Studies and Pacific Affairs
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact
- Landslides and related hazards
- Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
- Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Climate variability and models
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Community Development and Social Impact
- Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Evaluation and Performance Assessment
- Hydrology and Drought Analysis
- Climate Change and Sustainable Development
United Nations University
2013-2024
Institute for Environment and Human Security
2013-2024
University Medical Center Groningen
2022
United Nations
2015-2021
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
2021
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
2018
University of Amsterdam
2010-2016
NationsUniversity
2015
United Nations University Institute on Globalization, Culture and Mobility
2014-2015
Loss and damage is already a significant consequence of inadequate ability to adapt changes in climate patterns. This paper reports on the first ever multi-country, evidence-based study loss from perspective affected people least developed other vulnerable countries. Researchers Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Gambia, Kenya, Micronesia, Mozambique Nepal conducted household surveys (n=3,269) more than hundred focus group discussions open interviews about damage. The research...
The Ganges-Brahmaputra delta enables Bangladesh to sustain a dense population, but it also exposes people natural hazards. This article presents findings from the Gibika project, which researches livelihood resilience in seven study sites across Bangladesh. aims understand how build against environmental stresses, such as cyclones, floods, riverbank erosion, and drought, what ways their strategies sometimes fail. applies new methodology for studying people's decision making risk-prone...
Abstract The purpose of this paper is to determine the importance environment as a driver North‐South migration in Ghana. Almost one every five people born northern Ghana living southern Interviews with 203 migrant farmers suggest that from North South is, large extent, environmentally induced. Many Northerners decided migrate because poor agro‐ecological conditions at home combined easy access fertile lands more humid destination area. interviews yielded several insights are relevant for...
This article analyses the dynamics between rainfall variability, food insecurity and human mobility in eight case studies, namely Ghana, Tanzania, Guatemala, Peru, Bangladesh, India, Thailand Vietnam. It covers a large spectrum of rainfall-related climatic events, including floods, drought, seasonal shifts dry spells, their impact on turn approximately 1300 households studies. also summarizes outcomes focus group discussions participatory research approach sessions held with communities...
This paper aims to understand how environmental stressors influence people's livelihood options in the coastal belt of Bangladesh. We argue that such as cyclones, riverbank erosion, salinity intrusion, and floods have negative impacts on lives by reducing their options. Twelve in-depth interviews (Livelihood Histories) twelve Focus Group Discussions (FGD) based two Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) tools (Village Timeline Contextual Change) were carried out three different sites Bangladesh...
The purpose of this article is to explore how migration theory invoked in empirical studies climate-related migration, and provide suggestions for engagement with the emerging field climate mobility. Theory critical understanding processes we observe social-ecological systems because it points a specific locus attention research, shapes research questions, guides quantitative model development, influences what researchers find, ultimately informs policies programs. Research into mobility has...
Migration—environment linkages are at the centre of media attention because public concern about climate change and a perceived “flooding” migrants from less developed countries into more affluent parts world. In past few years, substantial body conceptual literature environmentally induced migration has evolved, but there is still paucity empirical work in this area. Moreover, environmental causes have been studied largely isolation consequences. paper we present an analysis vegetation...
This article addresses how gender norms impact the process of migration, and what this means for use migration as an adaptation strategy to cope with environmental stressors. Data was collected through qualitative fieldwork, taking form semi-structured open-ended interviews focus group discussions from a Dhaka slum three villages in Southern Bangladesh’s Bhola district. Our data revealed that women migrate when stress threatens livelihoods leave male household members unable earn enough...
While much work has been invested in addressing the economic and technical basis of disaster preparedness, less effort directed towards understanding cultural social obstacles to opportunities for risk reduction. This paper presents local insights from five different national settings into contexts preparedness. In most cases, an early warning system was place, but it failed alert people diverse environmental shocks. The research findings show that despite geographical typological...
Abstract As one of the lowest-lying island nation states in world, Republic Marshall Islands is vulnerable to sea level rise, flooding and associated impacts on soil water salinity. Persistent drought further affecting agricultural production access drinking water, heat stress increasingly common. The number Marshallese people residing USA has increased rapidly from 6650 2000 an estimated 30,000 2018. While we know that climate change already there are significant migration flows, do not...
During the last decades, pastoralist, and agropastoralist populations of world’s drylands have become exceedingly vulnerable to regional global changes. Specifically, exacerbated stressors imposed on these adversely affected their food security status, causing humanitarian emergencies catastrophes. Of stressors, climate variability change, land-use management practices, dynamics human demography are a special importance. These factors affect all four pillars security, namely, availability,...
Abstract Non-technical summary We identify a set of essential recent advances in climate change research with high policy relevance, across natural and social sciences: (1) looming inevitability implications overshooting the 1.5°C warming limit, (2) urgent need for rapid managed fossil fuel phase-out, (3) challenges scaling carbon dioxide removal, (4) uncertainties regarding future contribution sinks, (5) intertwinedness crises biodiversity loss change, (6) compound events, (7) mountain...
'Losses and damages' refer to impacts of climate change that have not been, or cannot be, avoided through mitigation adaptation efforts. After the establishment Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss Damage (WIM), is now considered third pillar – besides action under United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). This paper studies what Contribution Working Group II Fifth Assessment Report Intergovernmental Panel (IPCC WGII AR5) has say about this emerging topic. We use...
Abstract Pakistan is home to a wide range of geographical landscapes, each which faces different climate change impacts and challenges. This article presents findings from National Geographic Society funded project, employed people-centered, narratives-based approach study adaptation strategies people in 19 rural sites four provinces ( N = 108). The looked at six climate-related stressors—changes weather patterns, floods, Glacial Lake Outburst Floods, drought, heat waves, sea-level rise—in...
Non-technical summary We summarize what we assess as the past year's most important findings within climate change research: limits to adaptation, vulnerability hotspots, new threats coming from climate–health nexus, (im)mobility and security, sustainable practices for land use finance, losses damages, inclusive societal decisions ways overcome structural barriers accelerate mitigation limit global warming below 2°C. Technical synthesize 10 topics research where there have been significant...
Hyperarid, arid, semiarid, and dry subhumid areas cover approximately 41% of the global land area. The human population in drylands, currently estimated at 2.7 billion, faces limited access to sufficient, affordable, nutritious food. We discuss interlinkages among water security, environmental energy economic health food security governance, how they affect drylands. Reliable adequate supply, prevention contamination, increase potential for ample food, fodder, fiber production. Protecting...
The planned relocation of communities away from areas climate-related risk has emerged as a critical strategy to adapt the impacts climate change. Empirical examples around world show, however, that such relocations often lead poor outcomes for affected communities. To address this challenge, and contribute developing guidelines just sustainable processes, paper calls attention three fundamental tensions in processes: (1) conceptualizations habitability; (2) community consultation ownership;...
The 2014 Jure landslide in Sindhupalchok District, Nepal, caused significant loss and damage to ecosystems livelihoods the area. In direct aftermath of landslide, several disaster assessments were conducted, with aim counting casualties, injured people, damaged houses infrastructure. Although useful necessary their own right, such rapid do not reveal true extent significance losses damages that people areas face, including monetary value. We address this gap, based on a comprehensive...