Cover image of Climate change and disasters (Forced Migration Review 49)

Climate change and disasters (Forced Migration Review 49)

In light of the projected increase in the frequency and intensity of disasters associated with climate change, the number of people displaced in the context of disasters will inevitably rise. Existing... Read more

Ranked #1

Podcast cover

FMR 49 General - Trafficking for human organs

FMR 49 General - Trafficking for human organs

Trafficking of people for their organs is an emerging transnational crime that has failed to receive sufficient internat... Read more

18 Jun 2015

7mins

Ranked #2

Podcast cover

FMR 49 - Development and displacement risks

FMR 49 - Development and displacement risks

The impact of climate change induces systemic patterns of socio-economic erosion that also affect the dynamics of disast... Read more

18 Jun 2015

9mins

Ranked #3

Podcast cover

FMR 49 - Integrating resilience in South Asia

FMR 49 - Integrating resilience in South Asia

Communities can strengthen their resilience by integrating disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation and povert... Read more

18 Jun 2015

4mins

Ranked #4

Podcast cover

FMR 49 General - The Cartagena process: 30 years of innovation and solidarity

FMR 49 General - The Cartagena process: 30 years of innovation and solidarity

The 30th anniversary of the 1984 Cartagena Declaration offers the opportunity to consider the achievements of the Cartag... Read more

18 Jun 2015

10mins

Most Popular Podcasts

Ranked #5

Podcast cover

FMR 49 - Facilitating voluntary adaptive migration in the Pacific

FMR 49 - Facilitating voluntary adaptive migration in the Pacific

Voluntary adaptive migration across int'l borders will be a critical component of an overall adaptation strategy for at-... Read more

18 Jun 2015

6mins

Ranked #6

Podcast cover

FMR 49 - Mixed motivations and complex causality in the Mekong

FMR 49 - Mixed motivations and complex causality in the Mekong

Many climate change-affected communities have already been using migration as a means to adapt to and withstand the chal... Read more

18 Jun 2015

6mins

Ranked #7

Podcast cover

FMR 49 - Not drowning but fighting: Pacific Islands activists

FMR 49 - Not drowning but fighting: Pacific Islands activists

Focusing on climate-induced migration, rather than mitigation, can be at odds with grassroots demands and can make the f... Read more

18 Jun 2015

4mins

Ranked #8

Podcast cover

FMR 49 - Building respectful solutions

FMR 49 - Building respectful solutions

Tribes in coastal Alaska and Louisiana in the United States are among the communities at immediate risk of displacement ... Read more

18 Jun 2015

4mins

Ranked #9

Podcast cover

FMR 49 - “Everyone likes it here”

FMR 49 - “Everyone likes it here”

Sea-level rise threatens communities of the Lakshadweep islands. But what happens when belongingness, religious beliefs ... Read more

18 Jun 2015

4mins

Ranked #10

Podcast cover

FMR 49 - The necessity for an ethnographic approach in Peru

FMR 49 - The necessity for an ethnographic approach in Peru

A movement of people is rarely explained by environmental or climatic factors alone. Therefore an analysis which does no... Read more

18 Jun 2015

3mins

Ranked #11

Podcast cover

FMR 49 General - Sweet tea and cigarettes: a taste of refugee life in Jordan

FMR 49 General - Sweet tea and cigarettes: a taste of refugee life in Jordan

Among refugees in Jordan, utter boredom – the result of restrictions on mobility, prohibitions on employment, and feelin... Read more

18 Jun 2015

6mins

Ranked #12

Podcast cover

FMR 49 - Building adaptive capacity in Assam

FMR 49 - Building adaptive capacity in Assam

A starting point for adapting to longer-term climate change could be adaptation to short-term climate variability and ex... Read more

18 Jun 2015

6mins

Ranked #13

Podcast cover

FMR 49 - One good reason to speak of ‘climate refugees’

FMR 49 - One good reason to speak of ‘climate refugees’

The concept of ‘environmental refugees’, or ‘climate refugees’, has been progressively abandoned, as having no legal bas... Read more

18 Jun 2015

8mins

Ranked #14

Podcast cover

FMR 49 - West Africa: a testing ground for regional solutions

FMR 49 - West Africa: a testing ground for regional solutions

West Africa has a very mobile population and high vulnerability to natural hazards. It also, however, has a number of re... Read more

18 Jun 2015

11mins

Ranked #15

Podcast cover

FMR 49 - Governance questions for the international community

FMR 49 - Governance questions for the international community

The Nansen Initiative has highlighted significant questions about how the international community should collectively th... Read more

18 Jun 2015

15mins

Ranked #16

Podcast cover

FMR 49 - Developing temporary protection in Africa

FMR 49 - Developing temporary protection in Africa

Formalised temporary protection arrangements in Africa could significantly improve access to territory and human rights ... Read more

18 Jun 2015

11mins

Ranked #17

Podcast cover

FMR 49 - Climate effects on nomadic pastoralist societies

FMR 49 - Climate effects on nomadic pastoralist societies

Oman and Mongolia reflect the modern climatic and social challenges to mobile pastoral livelihoods.

18 Jun 2015

5mins

Ranked #18

Podcast cover

FMR 49 - Guidance for ‘managed’ relocation

FMR 49 - Guidance for ‘managed’ relocation

The international community has been slow to develop climate change-specific instruments to guide the relocation process... Read more

18 Jun 2015

10mins

Ranked #19

Podcast cover

FMR 49 - Lessons from planned relocation and resettlement in the past

FMR 49 - Lessons from planned relocation and resettlement in the past

Placing contemporary deliberations about relocation within a longer historical and intellectual framework reveals unexpe... Read more

18 Jun 2015

9mins

Ranked #20

Podcast cover

FMR 49 - Post-disaster resettlement in urban Bolivia

FMR 49 - Post-disaster resettlement in urban Bolivia

Post-disaster resettlement programmes can be unsuitable and ineffective, often exacerbating the vulnerability of people ... Read more

18 Jun 2015

5mins

“Podium: AI tools for podcasters. Generate show notes, transcripts, highlight clips, and more with AI. Try it today at https://podium.page”