Revisiting Planned Relocation as a Climate Change Adaptation Strategy:&lt;br&gt;The Added Value of a Human Rights-Based Approach

Gromilova, Mariya

doi:10.18352/ulr.258

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“…Furthermore, the human rights-based approach requires the authorities to ensure adequate information regarding the potential risks has been provided to people staying in environmentally stressed areas, and concrete measures are undertaken to minimise those risks 88 . If planned relocation is necessary, the rights-based approach can help rescue this maligned strategy by ensuring it is indeed a last resort and that the dignity and participation of the affected people are assured throughout the process 69,88 . For example, Fiji's Planned Relocation Guidelines (2018) and Vanuatu's National Policy on Climate Change and Disaster-induced Displacement (2018) contain provisions to protect the rights of the people being relocated in the context of climate change.…”

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“…While research studies confirm that most people want to stay in their original place, in certain situations of extreme environmental degradation, when living in the area becomes impossible, planned relocation may inevitably be required 69 . Climate-related planned relocation is defined by 70 as 'the systematic relocation of people and assets away from places that have become uninhabitable or are considered to be at increased risk to climate change impacts, such as sea level rise, coastal erosion, flooding, thawing permafrost or land loss.…”

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Policy challenges and responses to environmental non-migration

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The scientific literature, media, international summits, and policy forums highlighted enough the people who either move or are willing to move because of environmental reasons. Still, the voluntary environmental non-migrants (ENM), who are assumed to have strong resilience and coping capacity, are inordinately overlooked. The importance of addressing these ENMs has increasingly been emphasised. First, the paper explains the characteristics of ENM, outlining the key distinction between voluntary and forced non-migrants. Second, it emphasises the need to protect populations affected by environmental change and disaster, specifically highlighting oft-neglected ENM policy gaps. Thus, it examines to what extent ENM is addressed in existing global legal and policy responses. Having identified the gaps, it further considers the importance of adaptation strategies and well-planned relocation policies to support non-migration. Finally, it summarises the existing ENM policies’ scope and reflects on the key policy gaps identified to suggest the way forward. This paper urges for a pragmatic and strategic policy approach that ensures bottom-up community-oriented approaches for supporting ENM by: (i) coordinating adaptation activities, (ii) ensuring planned relocation and migration with dignity, (iii) enabling informed decision-making, (iv) mobilising national and international support, and (v) developing appropriate institutional structures for adaptation.

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Policy challenges and responses to environmental non-migration

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“…While the links between disasters, climate change, migration, and displacement have been addressed since the late 1980s (Myers, 1989, 1993; Massey et al, 1993; McAdam, 2010; Black et al, 2011; The Nansen Initiative, 2013, 2015; Klepp and Herbeck, 2016), issues related to planned relocation and the associated adaptation and risk reduction potential have expanded considerably in policy debates (McLeman, 2011; Pantuliano et al, 2012; Gromilova, 2014). Planned relocation has been acknowledged by the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change as one of the strategies for adaptation—even if as a last resort; some countries have developed national frameworks to guide the relocation process, such as Fiji's Planned Relocation Guidelines (Ministry of Economy, 2018).…”

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Displaced by climate and disaster‐induced relocations: experiences of cascading displacement in Fiji and the Philippines

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Disasters and climate-related risks displace millions of people each year. Planned relocation is one strategy used to address displacement. However, little attention has been paid to the secondary impacts of planned relocations, and how they influence the risk, vulnerability, and wellbeing of other groups, particularly people who live on the land selected for relocation sites, or in neighbouring areas. This paper explores how current and potential planned relocations in Fiji and the Philippines redistribute vulnerabilities to non-target communities that previously lived on, or alongside, relocation site land. The notion of cascading displacement is introduced to illustrate a serious consequence of planned relocations in which insecurity and displacement are recreated and perpetuated due to a failure to consider the needs of non-target groups that are directly disadvantaged by relocation processes. Insights from this paper may be used to inform future relocation policy and practice to achieve more equitable and sustainable outcomes for all involved.

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Climate Change and Human Rights in Africa: A New Factor in African Union Policymaking?

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2022

Democratic Governance, Law, and Development in Africa

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Revisiting Planned Relocation as a Climate Change Adaptation Strategy:<br>The Added Value of a Human Rights-Based Approach

Cited by 14 publications

References 6 publications

Policy challenges and responses to environmental non-migration

Policy challenges and responses to environmental non-migration

Displaced by climate and disaster‐induced relocations: experiences of cascading displacement in Fiji and the Philippines

Climate Change and Human Rights in Africa: A New Factor in African Union Policymaking?

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