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Disasters and Displacement: Gaps in Protection
Roberta Cohen,Megan Bradley +1 more
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In this article, the authors discuss the human rights and protection dimensions of disaster-induced displacement, identify the major challenges to protecting disaster victims, and propose ways forward, and argue that the need is now critical for new approaches to be developed for the environmentally displaced, including expanded normative and institutional frameworks, comprehensive national policies, national and international monitoring, rights training, and more effective ways of dealing with governments that fail to protect their populations.Abstract:
Natural disasters, particularly those related to climate change, are fast becoming a leading cause of forced displacement although conceptual, normative and institutional frameworks to provide human rights protection to the environmentally displaced 1 are not yet in place. This article discusses the human rights and protection dimensions of disaster-induced displacement, identifies the major challenges to protecting disaster victims, and proposes ways forward. The authors argue that while most environmentally displaced persons are expected to remain within their own countries, there is a lack of clarity about the status and protection needs of those uprooted by environmental degradation and other ‘slow-onset’ disasters as opposed to those displaced by ‘sudden-onset’ disasters. By far the biggest protection gap exists for those who cross borders. These individuals do not generally qualify as refugees under the 1951 Refugee Convention, there is no normative framework to address their specific needs and vulnerabilities and States have not been willing to commit to more than temporary protection on an ad hoc basis. The need is now critical for new approaches to be developed for the environmentally displaced, including expanded normative and institutional frameworks, comprehensive national policies, national and international monitoring, rights training, and more effective ways of dealing with governments that fail to protect their populations.read more
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Environmentally-induced displacement: theoretical frameworks and current challenges
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue in favour of distinguishing environmentally-induced displacement from the broader category of migratory movements and thereby making it a fully autonomous concept within the existing taxonomies, and illustrate the diversity and inconsistency of environmentally displaced people (EDPs) theoretical concept.
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Risk management and decision-making in relation to sustainable development
Margot Hurlbert,Jagdish Krishnaswamy,Edouard Davin,Francis X Johnson,Carlos Mena,John Morton,Soojeong Myeong,David Viner,Koko Warner,Anita Wreford,Soomaya Zakieldeen,Zinta Zommers +11 more
TL;DR: This article reviewed and assessed literature on risk and uncertainty surrounding land and climate change, policy instruments and decision-making that seek to address those risks and uncertainties, and governance practices that advance the response options with co-benefits identified in Chapter 6, lessen the socio-economic impacts of climate change and reduce trade-offs, and advance SLM.
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Disentangling Migration and Climate Change
Thomas Faist,Jeanette Schade +1 more
TL;DR: One of the most popular books now is the disentangling migration and climate change as mentioned in this paper, but it is difficult to find the book in the book store around your city. And when you have found the store to buy the book, it will be so hurt when you run out of it.
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Le déplacement en zones côtières : entre anticipation et gestion des risques naturels : perspectives juridiques
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the causes profondes de cette contrainte devenue tellement intense qu’elle conduit au deplacement, pour favoriser l’adaptation sur place ou mettre en œuvre un deplacement non plus concu comme un echec mais comme a strategie d'adaptation.
Internal Displacement and Responses at the Global Level:A Review of the Scholarship
David James Cantor,Agnes Woolley +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a review of the state of the art in this field of study and provide a key point of reference for researchers looking to develop our understanding of internal displacement from the standpoint of different disciplines and themes.
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Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors expose the principes selon lesquels protection, assistance and respect de la dignite (conditions de vie, non separation des familles, etc.) doivent andre reconnus without discrimination comme droits fondamentaux durant le deplacement comme a l'occasion du retour and du repeuplement.
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The Protection of Environmentally-Displaced Persons in International Law
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After the Tsunami: Human Rights of Vulnerable Populations
TL;DR: A survey conducted by the Human Rights Center and East-West Center at the University of California, Berkeley as mentioned in this paper focused on five countries hardest hit by the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami: India, Indonesia, the Maldives, Sri Lanka, and Thailand.
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