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Chapter10
DisplacementandResettlement:
Understanding theRoleofClimate
Change inContemporaryMigration
AlisonHeslin,NatalieDeliaDeckard,RobertOakes
andAriannaMontero-Colbert
Abstract Howdoweunderstanddisplacementandresettlementinthecontextofcli-
matechange?Thischapteroutlineschallengesanddebates in the literatureconnect-
ingclimatechangetothegrowingglobalflowofpeople.Webeginwithanoutlineof
theliteratureonenvironmentalmigration,specificallythedefinitions,measurements,
and formsof environmentalmigration.Thediscussion thenmoves to challenges in
the receptionofmigrants, treating the current scholarship onmigrant resettlement.
Wedetail a selectionofcases inwhich theenvironmentplaysa role in thedisplace-
mentofapopulation, includingsealevelriseinPacificIslandStates,cyclonicstorms
inBangladesh,anddesertificationinWestAfrica,aswellas theroleofdeforestation
inSouthAmerica鈥檚SouthernConeasadriverofbothclimatechangeandmigration.
Weoutline examples of each, highlighting the complex set of losses and damages
incurredbypopulations ineachcase.
Keywords Migration 路 Internaldisplacement 路Resettlement 路Climatechange
Naturaldisasters 路Environmentaldegradation 路LossandDamage 路Refugee
10.1 Introduction
Howdoweunderstanddisplacementand resettlement in theeraofclimatechange?
Scholars,practitioners,andpolicy-makershavebeengrapplingwithwaystoimprove
lifeoutcomesforlargenumbersofrefugeesandmigrants. Inparticular, the21stcon-
ferenceof theParties to theUnitedNationsClimateConvention(UNFCCC)inParis
created a taskforce toworkout recommendations to 鈥渁vert,minimize, and address
A.Heslin (B)
International InstituteofAppliedSystemsAnalysis,Laxenburg,Austria
e-mail: heslin@iiasa.ac.at
N.DeliaDeckard 路A.Montero-Colbert
DavidsonCollege,Davidson,USA
R.Oakes
UnitedNationsUniversity,Bonn,Germany
漏TheAuthor(s)2019
R.Mechler et al. (eds.),LossandDamage fromClimateChange,ClimateRisk
Management,PolicyandGovernance,https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72026-5_10 237
Loss and Damage from Climate Change
Concepts, Methods and Policy Options
- Title
- Loss and Damage from Climate Change
- Subtitle
- Concepts, Methods and Policy Options
- Authors
- Reinhard Mechler
- Laurens M. Bouwer
- Thomas Schinko
- Swenja Surminski
- JoAnne Linnerooth-Bayer
- Publisher
- Springer Open
- Date
- 2019
- Language
- English
- License
- CC BY 4.0
- ISBN
- 978-3-319-72026-5
- Size
- 16.0 x 24.0 cm
- Pages
- 580
- Keywords
- Environment, Climate change, Environmental law, Environmental policy, Risk management
- Categories
- International
- Naturwissenschaften Umwelt und Klima