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Migration, immobility and displacement outcomes following extreme events
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In this paper, a systematic review of evidence on population movements associated with weather-related extreme events is presented, and it is shown that in the face of extreme environmental events, it is important to distinguish between migration, displacement, and immobility each of which interact and respond to multiple drivers.About:
This article is published in Environmental Science & Policy.The article was published on 2013-03-01. It has received 343 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Environmental change & Population.read more
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Health and climate change: policy responses to protect public health
Nick Watts,W. Neil Adger,Paolo Agnolucci,Jason J. Blackstock,Peter Byass,Wenjia Cai,Sarah Chaytor,Tim Colbourn,Matthew Collins,Adam Cooper,Peter M. Cox,Joanna Depledge,Paul Drummond,Paul Ekins,Victor Galaz,Delia Grace,Hilary Graham,Michael Grubb,Andy Haines,Ian Hamilton,Alasdair Hunter,Xujia Jiang,Moxuan Li,Ilan Kelman,Lu Liang,Melissa C. Lott,Robert Lowe,Yong Luo,Georgina M. Mace,Mark A. Maslin,Maria Nilsson,Tadj Oreszczyn,Steve Pye,Tara Quinn,My Svensdotter,Sergey Venevsky,Koko Warner,Bing Xu,Jun Yang,Yongyuan Yin,Chaoqing Yu,Qiang Zhang,Peng Gong,Hugh Montgomery,Anthony Costello +44 more
TL;DR: The 2015 Lancet Commission on Health and Climate Change has been formed to map out the impacts of climate change, and the necessary policy responses, in order to ensure the highest attainable stand-alone position on climate change.
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The UCL–Lancet Commission on Migration and Health: the health of a world on the move
Ibrahim Abubakar,Robert W Aldridge,Delan Devakumar,Miriam Orcutt,Rachel Burns,Mauricio Lima Barreto,Poonam Dhavan,Fouad M. Fouad,Nora Groce,Yan Guo,Sally Hargreaves,Sally Hargreaves,Michael Knipper,J. Jaime Miranda,Nyovani Madise,Bernadette N. Kumar,Davide Mosca,Terry McGovern,Leonard S. Rubenstein,Peter Sammonds,Susan M Sawyer,Susan M Sawyer,Kabir Sheikh,Kabir Sheikh,Stephen Tollman,Paul Spiegel,Cathy Zimmerman,J. Jaime Miranda,Mustafa Abbas,Eleanor Acer,Ayesha Ahmad,Seye Abimbola,Karl Blanchet,Philippe Bocquier,Fiona Samuels,Olga Byrne,Sonia Haerizadeh,Rita Issa,Mark A. Collinson,Carren Ginsburg,Ilan Kelman,Alys McAlpine,Nicola S. Pocock,Barbara Olshansky,Dandara de Oliveira Ramos,Michael J. White,Suzanne Zhou +46 more
TL;DR: The most prominent dialogue focuses almost exclusively on migration from LMICs to high-income countries (HICs), where nationalist movements assert so-called cultural sovereignty by delineating an us versus them rhetoric, creating a moral emergency.
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Broad threat to humanity from cumulative climate hazards intensified by greenhouse gas emissions
Camilo Mora,Daniele Spirandelli,Erik C. Franklin,John Lynham,Michael B. Kantar,Wendy Miles,Charlotte Z. Smith,Kelle C. Freel,Jade Moy,Leo V. Louis,Evan W. Barba,Keith Bettinger,Abby G. Frazier,John F. Colburn Ix,Naota Hanasaki,Ed Hawkins,Yukiko Hirabayashi,Wolfgang Knorr,Christopher M. Little,Kerry Emanuel,Justin Sheffield,Justin Sheffield,Jonathan A. Patz,Cynthia L. Hunter +23 more
TL;DR: In this article, traceable evidence for 467 pathways by which human health, water, food, economy, infrastructure and security have been recently impacted by climate hazards such as warming, heatwaves, precipitation, drought, floods, fires, storms, sea-level rise and changes in natural land cover and ocean chemistry.
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Systematic review approaches for climate change adaptation research
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an analysis of approaches for systematic review and research synthesis and examine their applicability in an adaptation context and highlight innovative applications of systematic approaches, with a focus on the unique challenges of integrating multiple data sources and formats in reviewing climate change adaptation policy and practice.
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Why populations persist: mobility, place attachment and climate change
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors apply behavioural migration theory to examine the extent to which immobile populations experiencing environmental degradation exercise agency with respect to location and elucidate what it means to be trapped.
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