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ing—bothtourbanareaswithin theirowncountriesandabroadParradoandCerrutti
(2003).TheParaguayan case is particularly instructive, given thenation’s status as
aparadigmofneoliberal governance in its post-dictatorship (NicksonandLambert
2002; Ezquerro-Cañete 2016).As the state’s “hands off” approach to both export-
orientedagribusinessandmigrationhasallowedtheresultsofdeforestationtoaffect
the nation’s social dynamics in away that is largely uninfluenced by regulation or
legislation.
Paraguayan campesinos overwhelmingly relocate to informal settlements in the
nation’s three largest urban centres (Hetherington 2011; Reed 2015). These slum
areas, known as bañados, are completelywithout the presence of the state—with
dwellings havingno reliable access to power, nomailing addresses and complying
with no legal building codes (Reed 2015; Cunningham et al. 2012). Despite the
presenceofprivatelybuiltstreetsofvariousquality,thecommunitiesdonotappearon
maps.Asindicatedbythenomenclature,bañadosarelocatedinfloodplains—leaving
theresidents toevacuate topublicparksandstreetcornersonhighergroundintimes
offlood (Hetherington2011).Althoughbañadoshavenopermanent infrastructure,
residences are inhabitedmulti-generationally,with adults in 2017 livingwith their
childreninthemostdesirablylocatedbañadohomesconstructedbythegrandparents
as early as the 1930s.Although the familiesmaybeunderstood as displaced, their
current homes are permanently in temporary spaces, and their government has no
demonstrated intentionofchanging this reality.
10.5 Conclusions
Asclimate change continues to put at risk the livelihoods and personal security of
populations throughout the world, the movement of people internally and across
international borderswill continue.Due to the numerous consequences of climate
change and the ways climate change interacts with other environmental stressors
and existing social structures, the pathways bywhich changes in climate displace
populations differ greatly between places, overlapping in ways specific to a par-
ticular locale. In this chapter, we outlined examples of these overlapping climate
risks in locations includingPacificSmall IslandDevelopingStates,WestAfricaand
theSouthernCone,highlighting thecomplex interactionsbetween theenvironment,
natural resources, extremeweather, andsociety.With thepushofpopulationsaway
from their homes through sea-level rise, cyclones, desertification, or other environ-
mental change, we draw attention to theways inwhich displaced populations are
receivedandthechallengestheyfaceinresettlement.Thispieceiscritical forunder-
standing the losses and damages associatedwith dislocation, as risks to displaced
populationsdonotendoncetheyhaveleft theirhomeland.Studiesofclimate-related
displacementmustaddresswherepeoplemove toandhowthepolitical economyof
the sending and receiving nations affects the capacity of migrants to resettle and
succeedintheirnewcountry.Additionally, inconsideringfutureclimatechangeand
its effects onpopulations,wemust also acknowledge that in the face of losses and
Loss and Damage from Climate Change
Concepts, Methods and Policy Options
- Titel
- Loss and Damage from Climate Change
- Untertitel
- Concepts, Methods and Policy Options
- Autoren
- Reinhard Mechler
- Laurens M. Bouwer
- Thomas Schinko
- Swenja Surminski
- JoAnne Linnerooth-Bayer
- Verlag
- Springer Open
- Datum
- 2019
- Sprache
- englisch
- Lizenz
- CC BY 4.0
- ISBN
- 978-3-319-72026-5
- Abmessungen
- 16.0 x 24.0 cm
- Seiten
- 580
- Schlagwörter
- Environment, Climate change, Environmental law, Environmental policy, Risk management
- Kategorien
- International
- Naturwissenschaften Umwelt und Klima