979
Views
25
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
research paper

Disaster-induced migration: Assessing the impact of extreme weather events on livelihoods

Pages 96-111 | Published online: 31 Jan 2012

References

  • Adger , W. N. , Kelly , P. M. and Nguyen , H. N. 2001 . “ Environment, society and precipitous change ” . In Living with Environmental Change: Social Vulnerability, Adaptation and Resilience in Vietnam , Edited by: Adger , W. N. , Kelly , P. M. and Nguyen , H. N. 3 – 18 . London : Routledge .
  • Anthes , R. A. , Corell , R. W. , Holland , G. , Hurrell , J. W. , MacCracken , M. C. and Trenberth , K. E. 2006 . Hurricanes and global warming – potential linkages and consequences . American Meteorological Society , 87 : 623 – 628 .
  • BBC, 2010. South Pakistan Floods Displace a Million in 48 hours (27 August 2010). www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-11105661.
  • Biermann , F. and Boas , I. 2008 . Protecting climate refugees. The case for a global protocol . . Environment , 50 ( 6 ) : 8 – 16 .
  • Black R., 2001. Environmental Refugees: Myth or Reality? UNHCR Working Papers, 34, 1–19, UNHCR, Geneva.
  • Boano , C. , Zetter , R. and Morris , T. 2008 . “ Environmentally displaced people: understanding the linkages between environmental change, livelihoods and forced migration ” . In Forced Migration Policy Briefing 1 , Refugee Studies Centre Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford .
  • Bogardi , J. and Warner , K. 2008 . Here comes the flood . Nature Reports Climate Change , 3 : 9 – 11 .
  • Brown , O. 2008 . Migration and Climate Change , Geneva : IOM .
  • Burke , E. J. , Brown , S. J. and Christidis , N. 2006 . Modelling the recent evolution of global drought and projections for the twenty-first century with the Hadley centre climate model . Journal of Hydrometeorology , 7 ( 5 ) : 1113 – 1125 .
  • Castles , S. 2003 . The international politics of forced migration . Development , 46 ( 3 ) : 11 – 20 .
  • Castles S., 2004. Confronting the Realities of Forced Migration. Migration Information Source, Washington, DC. www.immigrationinformation.org/Feature/display.cfm?idm=222.
  • Diamond , J. 2004 . Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or to Adapt , New York : Viking .
  • de Haas , H. 2009 . Mobility and Human Development, Human Development Reports Research Paper Vol. 1 , New York : United Nations Development Programme .
  • de Sherbinin , A. , VanWey , L. , McSweeney , K. , Aggarwal , R. , Barbieri , A. , Henry , S. , Hunter , L. , Twine , W. and Walker , R. 2008 . Household demographics, livelihoods and the environment . Global Environmental Change , 18 : 38 – 53 .
  • Dun O., 2009. Linkages between Flooding, Migration and Resettlement in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam: Case Study Report for the EACH-FOR Project, United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS), Germany.
  • Dun , O. and Gemenne , F. 2008 . Defining environmental migration . Forced Migration Review , 31 : 10 – 11 .
  • Falloon , P. D. and Betts , R. 2010 . Climate impacts on European agriculture and water management in the context of adaptation and mitigation – the importance of an integrated approach . Science of the Total Environment , 408 ( 23 ) : 5667 – 5687 .
  • FAO, 2009. FAO/WFP Crop and Food Security Assessment Mission to Myanmar. www.fao.org/docrep/011/ai478e/ai478e00.htm.
  • Ferris , E. 2007 . Making Sense of Climate Change, Natural Disasters and Displacement: A Work in Progress (Lecture) , Washington, DC : Brookings Institution .
  • García , M. C. 2006 . Seeking Refuge: Central American Migration to Mexico, the United States and Canada , Berkeley : University of California Press .
  • Goldberg , A. and Frongillo , E. 2001 . Cultural Perspectives for Understanding Food Security Among the Mossi: A Background Paper on Food Security in Burkina Faso , Washington, DC : Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project .
  • Gornall , J. , Betts , R. , Burke , E. , Clark , R. , Camp , J. , Willett , K. and Wiltshire , A. 2010 . Implications of climate change for agricultural productivity in the early twenty-first century . Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences , 365 ( 1554 ) : 2973 – 2989 .
  • Hegerl , G. C. , Zwiers , F. W. , Braconnot , P. , Gillett , N. P. , Luo , Y. , Marengo Orsini , J. A. , Nicholls , N. , Penner , J. E. and Stott , P. A. 2007 . “ Understanding and attributing climate change ” . In The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change , Edited by: Solomon , S. , Qin , D. , Manning , M. , Chen , Z. , Marquis , M. , Averyt , K. B. , Tignor , M. and Miller , H. L. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press .
  • Henry , S. , Schoumaker , B. and Beauchemin , C. 2004 . The impact of rainfall on the first out-migration: a multi-level event-history analysis in Burkina Faso . Population and Environment , 25 ( 5 ) : 423 – 460 .
  • Hulme M., 2008. Commentary – Climate Refugees: Cause For a New Agreement? www.environmentmagazine.org/Archives/Back%20Issues/November-December%202008/hulme-full.
  • Huq , S. and Reid , H. 2009 . “ Mainstreaming adaptation in development ” . In The Earthscan Reader on Adaptation to Climate Change , Edited by: Schipper , E. L.F. and Burton , I. 313 – 322 . London : Earthscan .
  • IOM, 2007. www.iom.int/jahia/Jahia/activities/by-theme/migration-climate-change-environmental-degradation. Discussion Note: Migration and the Environment (MC/INF/288), Geneva, IOM.
  • IFRC . 2009 . World Disasters Report , Geneva : IFRC . 2009.
  • IPCC . 1990 . The First Assessment Report , Cambridge : Cambridge University Press .
  • IPCC . 2007 . The Fourth Assessment Report , Cambridge : Cambridge University Press .
  • ISDR . 2009 . Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction: Risk and Poverty in a Changing Climate – Invest today for a safer tomorrow , Geneva : ISDR .
  • Jäger J., Frühmann J., Güberger S., Vag A., 2009. Environmental Change and Forced Migration Scenarios Project Synthesis Report. 14 May 2009. Deliverable 044468.
  • Johnson , C. A. and Krishnamurthy , P. K. 2010 . Dealing with displacement: Can ‘social protection’ facilitate long-term adaptation to climate change? . Global Environmental Change , 20 ( 4 ) : 648 – 655 .
  • Keane , D. 2004 . Environmental causes and consequences of migration: a search for the meaning of environmental refugees . Georgetown International Environmental Law Review , 16 : 209 – 223 .
  • Kirsch-Wood , J. , Korreborg , J. and Linde , A. 2008 . What humanitarians need to do . Forced Migration Review , 31 : 40 – 43 .
  • Knutson , T. R. , McBride , J. L. , Chan , J. , Emanuel , K. , Holland , G. , Landsea , C. , Held , I. , Kossin , J. P. , Srivastava , A. K. and Sugi , M. 2010 . Tropical cyclones and climate change . Nature Geoscience , 3 : 157 – 163 .
  • Krishnamurthy , P. K. , Fisher , J. B. and Johnson , C. 2011 . ‘Mainstreaming local perceptions of hurricane risk into policymaking: a case study of community GIS in Mexico . Global Environmental Change , 21 ( 1 ) : 143 – 153 .
  • Krishnamurthy , P. K. and Krishnamurthy , L. 2011 . Agrobiodiversity for livelihood security: a case study of agroforestry technologies in Mexico . Journal of Life Sciences , 5 ( 2 ) : 108 – 119 .
  • Landsea , C. W. 2007 . Counting Atlantic tropical ciclones back to 1900 . Eos , 197 ( 18 ) : 197 – 202 .
  • Lovell J., 2007. Climate change to make one billion refugees-agency. Reuters, 13 May 2007.
  • Martin , S. F. 2010 . Climate Change and International Migration. Background Paper for the Transatlantic Study Team on Climate Change and Migration , Washington, DC. : German Marshall Fund .
  • McLeman , R. and Smit , B. 2004 . Commentary No. 86: Climate Change, Migration and Security , Ottawa : Canadian Security Intelligence Service .
  • McLeman , R. and Smit , B. 2006 . Migration as adaptation to climate change . Climatic Change , 76 : 31 – 53 .
  • Meehl , G. A. , Stocker , T. F. , Collins , W. D. , Friedlingstein , P. , Gaye , A. T. , Gregory , J. M. , Kitoh , A. , Knutti , R. , Murphy , J. M. , Noda , A. , Raper , S. C. B. , Watterson , I. G. , Weaver , A. J. and Zhao , Z.-C. 2007 . “ Global climate projections. Climate Change 2007: the physical science basis ” . In Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change , Edited by: Solomon , S. , Qin , D. , Manning , M. , Chen , Z. , Marquis , M. , Averyt , K. B. , Tignor , M. and Miller , H. L. 747 – 846 . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press .
  • Murray B., 2009. Mass Migration – A Worldwide Phenomenon. www.analysisonline.org/site/aoarticle_display.asp?sec_id=140002434&news_id=140001396&issue_id=1.
  • Myers , N. 1993 . Environmental Exodus: An Emergent Crisis in the Global Arena , 14 – 17 . Washington, DC : Climate Institute .
  • Myers N., 1995. Environmental Exodus: An Emergent Crisis in the Global Arena. www.climate.org/PDF/Environmental%20Exodus.pdf.
  • Myers , C. , Slack , T. and Singelmann , J. 2008 . ‘Social vulnerability and migration in the wake of disaster: the cases of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita . Population and Environment , 26 ( 6 ) : 271 – 291 .
  • Naik , A. 2009 . “ Migration and natural disasters ” . In Migration, Environment and Climate Change: Assessing the Evidence , Edited by: Laczko , F. and Aghazarm , C. 245 – 318 . Geneva : IOM .
  • NRC . 2010 . Norwegian Refugee Council – Climate Change. www.nrc.no/?aid=9407106
  • NRC . 2011 . Displacement due to Natural Hazard-Induced Disasters: Global Estimates for 2009 and 2010. NRC, Oslo
  • Pall , P. , Aina , T. , Stone , D. A. , Stott , P. A. , Nozawa , t. , Hilberts , A. G. J. , Lohmann , D. and Allen , M. R. 2011 . Anthropogenic greenhouse gas contribution to flood risk in England and Wales in autumn 2000 . Nature , 470 : 382 – 385 .
  • Raleigh , C. , Jordan , L. and Salehyan , I. 2008 . Assessing the Impact of Climate Change on Migration and Conflict , Washington, DC : World Bank .
  • Renaud F. G., Dun O., Warner K., Bogardi J. J., 2010. A decision framework for environmentally induced migration. International Migration, Special Edition on Environmental Change, Social Vulnerability, and Forced Migration, 49(s1). e5–e29.
  • Schubert , S. , Gutzler , D. , Wang , H. , Dai , A. , Delworth , T. , Deser , C. , Findell , K. , Fu , R. , Higgins , W. , Hoerling , M. , Kirtman , B. , Koster , R. , Kumar , A. , Legler , D. , Lettenmaier , D. , Lyon , B. , Magana , V. , Mo , K. , Nigam , S. , Region , P. , Phillips , A. , Pulwarty , R. , Rind , D. , Ruiz-Barradas , A. , Schemm , J. , Seager , R. , Stewart , R. , Suarez , M. , Syktus , J. , Ting , M. , Wang , C. , Weaver , S. and Zeng , N. 2009 . A US CLIVAR project to assess and compare responses of global climate models to drought-related SST forcing patterns: overview and results . Journal of Climate , 22 : 5251 – 5272 .
  • Stal M., 2009, Mozambique Case Study. Report for the Environmental Change and Forced Migration Scenarios Project.
  • Stark , O. and Levhari , D. 1982 . On migration and risk in LDCs . Economic Development and Cultural Change , 31 ( 1 ) : 191 – 196 .
  • Stover , E. and Vinck , P. 2008 . Cyclone Nargis and the politics of relief and reconstruction aid in Burma (Myanmar) . Journal of the American Medical Association , 300 : 729 – 731 .
  • Tearfund . 2006 . Feeling the Heat: Why Governments Must Act to Tackle the Impact of Climate Change on Global Water Supplies and Avert Mass Movement of Climate Change Refugees. , London : Tearfund .
  • UNDP . 2009 . Human Development Report 2009: Overcoming Barriers – Human Mobility and Development , New York : United Nations Development Programme .
  • UNFCCC, 2011. National Adaptation Programmes of Action. http://unfccc.int/napas/items/2679.php.
  • United Nations and World Bank . 2010 . Natural Hazards, UnNatural Disasters: The Economics of Effective Pevention , Washington, DC : World Bank .
  • Vecchi , G. A. and Knutson , T. R. 2008 . On estimates of historical North Atlantic tropical cyclone activity . Journal of Climate , 21 ( 14 ) : 3580 – 3600 .
  • Vos , F. , Rodriguez , J. , Below , R. and Guha-Sapir , D. 2010 . Annual Disaster Statistical Review 2009: The Numbers and Trends , Brussels : CRED .
  • Warner , K. 2010 . Global environmental change and migration: governance challenges . Global Environmental Change, Special Issue focusing on Resilience and Governance , 20 : 402 – 413 .
  • Warner K., Ehrhart C., de Sherbinin A., Adamo S., Chai-Onn T. 2009. In Search of Shelter: Mapping the Effects of Climate Change on Human Migration and Displacement. http://www.ciesin.columbia.edu/documents/clim-migr-report-june09_media.pdf.
  • Webster , P. J. 2008 . Myanmar's deadly daffodil . Nature Geoscience , 1 : 488 – 490 .
  • Wisner , B. , Blaikie , P. , Cannon , T. and Davis , I. 2004 . At Risk: Natural Hazards, People's Vulnerability and Disasters , London : Routledge .
  • Wrathall , D. and Morris , B. 2009 . Environmental Migration: A Framework for Research, Policy and Practice , Bonn : UNU . UNU-EHS and Munich Re Foundation Chair on Social Vulnerability Research Brief

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.