Climate change and migration: rethinking policies for adaptation and disaster risk reduction
SOURCE 15/2011:
This document presents some recommendations which provide a foundation for further consideration of how governments can better manage displacement and migration related to climate disasters. It includes individual studies providing a unique, in-depth focus on various aspects of the issue and on multiple regions where climate change impacts may be significant and suggesting new avenues for research, policy, and law that may be relevant to decision makers in affected regions, and bring a greater depth to the issues discussed by the Academy.
This SOURCE issue presents the outcomes of the 2010 Summer Academy and the selected papers of PhD students from different academic backgrounds. These papers cover various aspects of the complexity of protection issues for environmental migrants and analysis of current protection regimes. Using case studies conducted in both developing and developed countries, these papers identified legal and institutional gaps and explored possible policy options for decision makers.
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