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Migration, Risk Management and Climate Change: Evidence and Policy Responses

Part of the Global Migration Issues Book Series (volume 6)

Editors: Milan, Andrea; Schraven, Benjamin; Warner, Koko; Cascone, Noemi

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-42922-9

ISBN: 978-3-319-42920-5

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Nov 15, 2016

1 - 10 of 11 Chapters

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An Index Based Assessment of Vulnerability to Floods in the Upper Indus Sub-Basin: What Role for Remittances?

Banerjee, Soumyadeep; Anwar, Muhammad Zubair; Gioli, Giovanna; Bisht, Suman; Abid, Saleem; Habib, Nusrat; Sharma, Sanjay; Tuladhar, Sabarnee; Khan, Azeem

Pages: 3 –23

[There is a growing consensus among migration scholars that remittances tend to be a counter-cyclical shock absorber in times of crisis. In mountain contexts of the global South, lack of formal employment opportunities, precarious land rights, subsistence agriculture, along with the lack of...
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Role of Remittances in Building Farm Assets in the Flood Affected Households in Koshi Sub-Basin in Nepal

Banerjee, Soumyadeep; Sijapati, Bandita; Poudel, Meena; Bisht, Suman; Kniveton, Dominic

Pages: 25 –41

[The impacts of future climate change could be significantly reduced if people were better able to cope with present climate risks. The role of human mobility, particularly labor migration and remittances, has received little attention in the adaptation policies in Nepal. Instead, migration is...
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Migration as a Risk Management Strategy in the Context of Climate Change: Evidence from the Bolivian Andes

Brandt, Regine; Kaenzig, Raoul; Lachmuth, Susanne

Pages: 43 –61

[Mountain regions are among the most vulnerable areas with regard to global environmental changes. In the Bolivian Andes, for example, environmental risks, such as those related to climate change, are numerous and often closely intertwined with social risks. Rural households are therefore...
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Circular Migration and Local Adaptation in the Mountainous Community of Las Palomas (Mexico)

Cascone, Noemi; Peña del Valle Isla, Ana Elisa; Milan, Andrea

Pages: 63 –83

[Recent literature highlights the potential of migration as a part of successful adaptation strategies in the face of external stressors (Afifi et al., Migration and development, 2015; Bardsley and Hugo, Population Environ 32(2–3):238–262, 2010; Black et al., Nature 478(7370):447–449, 2011;...
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Household Adaptation Strategies to Climate Extremes Impacts and Population Dynamics: Case Study from the Czech Republic

Stojanov, Robert; Duží, Barbora; Kelman, Ilan; Němec, Daniel; Procházka, David

Pages: 87 –103

[This chapter deals with the state of household adaptation strategies in a region frequently affected by climate extremes, specifically floods occurred from 1997 to 2012 in selected rural municipalities in the Bečva river basin in the North-Eastern part of the Czech Republic. We used quantitative...
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Moving Beyond the Focus on Environmental Migration Towards Recognizing the Normality of Translocal Lives: Insights from Bangladesh

Etzold, Benjamin; Mallick, Bishawjit

Pages: 105 –128

[In the popular debate about climate change and adaptation in Bangladesh, migration is most often framed in a negative light: People are fleeing due to environmental changes and are displaced in the wake of disasters. Mobility is largely seen as a reaction and migrants as more or less passive...
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Good Fishing in Rising Seas: Kandholhudhoo, Dhuvaafaru, and the Need for a Development-Based Migration Policy in the Maldives

Simonelli, Andrea C.

Pages: 131 –148

[Recent research has shown that many people dependent on environmentally-based livelihoods have begun to use migration as a method of adaptation to deal with climate stresses on their livelihoods. Utilizing circular, seasonal, and temporary migration can assist households dependent on natural...
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The Reason Land Matters: Relocation as Adaptation to Climate Change in Fiji Islands

Gharbaoui, Dalila; Blocher, Julia

Pages: 149 –173

[Retreating from coastal areas in response to changing environmental conditions has long been a part of Pacific Island communities’ adaptive strategies, culture and practices. However, the adverse effects of climate change are likely to increasingly incite islanders to migrate to cope with...
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The Role of Remittances in Risk Management and Resilience in Tuvalu: Evidence and Potential Policy Responses

Kagan, Sophia

Pages: 175 –191

[Remittances are often perceived as having multiple roles in strengthening resilience to environmental shock. They may be a form of social protection in the wake of a natural disaster, when the funds received can be used to provide basic necessities, rebuild shelter and livelihoods. Remittances...
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Remittances for Adaptation: An ‘Alternative Source’ of International Climate Finance?

Bendandi, Barbara; Pauw, Pieter

Pages: 195 –211

[Climate finance is a key issue at the UN climate negotiations, but explicit international funding possibilities for adaptation in developing countries remain limited. According to the recent Paris Agreement, climate finance will come from a ‘wide variety of sources, instruments and channels’. To...

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