Ranked #1
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
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7mins
Ranked #2
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
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9mins
Ranked #3
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
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4mins
Ranked #4
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
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10mins
Ranked #5
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
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6mins
Ranked #6
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
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6mins
Ranked #7
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
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4mins
Ranked #8
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
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4mins
Ranked #9
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
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4mins
Ranked #10
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
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3mins
Ranked #11
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
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6mins
Ranked #12
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
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6mins
Ranked #13
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
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8mins
Ranked #14
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
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11mins
Ranked #15
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
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15mins
Ranked #16
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
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11mins
Ranked #17
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
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5mins
Ranked #18
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
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10mins
Ranked #19
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
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9mins
Ranked #20
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
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5mins