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"Environmental Degradation and Migration"
Publications de recherche | Textes académiques | Renaud Fabrice | Bogardi Janos J. | Warner Koko | Dun Olivia | septembre 2008The concept of environmental refugees was introduced by Lester Brown of the Worldwatch Institute in the 1970s. It entered into common usage after a 1985 United Nations Environment Programme policy paper entitled ‘Environmental Refugees’. The International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM) describes forced migration as “a general term that refers to the movements of refugees and internally displaced people (those displaced by conflicts) as well as people displaced by natural or environmental disasters, chemical or nuclear disasters, famine, or development projects” (FMO, 2007). We define (...)
Dégradation de l’environnement | Migration | Réfugiés environnementaux | -
"Assessing Institutional and Governance Needs Related to Environmental Change and Human Migration"
Documents institutionnels | Documents de travail d’institutions | Warner Koko | UNU-EHS | 2010Often, the media and policymakers approach the issue of limate change, migration and displacement by asking questions related to “how many” migrants will come. An equally important but less considered question is how national institutions will adapt to accommodate climate change and human mobility. This paper suggests that the capacity of states to adjust to these changes effectively is contingent upon the particular cultural, social, economic and political contexts in which they function and the structural constraints of government machinery. Rather than proposing prêt-a-porter solutions for nation-states, it is important to help states better understand the (...)
Changement climatique et migration | Gouvernance globale | GMF | Sénégal | Bangladesh | Mexique | -
"An anatomy of adaptation to climate change and variability."
Publications de recherche | Textes académiques | Warner Koko | Barry Smith | Burton Ian | Klein Richard J.T. | 2000Adaptation to climate variability and change is important both for impact assessment […]
Adaptation | Changement climatique | -
"Adapt or Flee. How to face environmental Migration ?"
Publications de recherche | Numéro de Revue | Renaud Fabrice | Bogardi Janos J. | Warner Koko | Dun Olivia | UNU-EHS | 2007The present issue of InterSecTions is a special one. It does not only give the odd chance to write a foreword to an essay which is co-authored by myself but it is the first issue which is written by a team, rather than an individual. All of us are staff members of UNU-EHS.
Dégradation de l’environnement | Migration | Migrations environnementale |
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