Scales and sensitivities in climate vulnerability, displacement, and health

Hunter, Lori M.; Koning, Stephanie M.; Fussell, Elizabeth; King, Brian; Rishworth, Andrea; Merdjanoff, Alexis; Muttarak, Raya; Riosmena, Fernando; Simon, Daniel; Skop, Emily; Hoek, Jamon Van Den

doi:10.1007/s11111-021-00377-7

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“…The reasons identified for 'low mobility' include 'obligations to family members, property or assets, affective and social ties to the location and no suitable alternative location' (p. 441) 1 , displaying a complex blend of internal motives and external circumstances. In their study 29 , elaborate on four dimensions of migrants and non-migrants based on the scale and severity of 'people-place vulnerability' and 'migration continuum'-trapped, displacement, voluntary migration (i.e., migration as adaptation), and voluntary non-migration (i.e., adaption in place). But, in this paper, we employ the 'capabilities and aspirations' framework, i.e., immobility in terms of the intersection of one's capabilities to move or stay and their preference 30 , and defined environmental non-migrants into two groups: voluntary and forced.…”

Section: Demystifying Environmental Non-migrationmentioning

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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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Section: Demystifying Environmental Non-migrationmentioning

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Policy challenges and responses to environmental non-migration

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“…Most studies that seek to connect environmental shocks and agriculture to human health use data (aggregated over space and time) on temperature, precipitation and vegetation anomalies, such as drought, heat waves and excessive rainfall (Brown et al, 2014;Randell and Gray, 2019;Sellers and Gray, 2019;Jain, 2020). Understanding how exposure to environmental shocks combined with the timing of exposure of individuals will help development programs to design appropriate interventions to protect human health and wellbeing (Grace et al, 2020;Hunter et al, 2021). This fairly general approach has been especially relevant in the context of climate change as scholars work to consider the linkage between the environment, food systems and health outcomes.…”

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Integrated modeling framework for sustainable agricultural intensification

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Carcedo

Eggen

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Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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Agricultural scientists are pursuing sustainable intensification strategies to increase global food availability, but integration from research to impact at the local-level requires knowledge of demographic and human-environment to enhance the adaptive capacity of farmers cultivating <10 ha. Enhancing close collaboration among transdisciplinary teams and these smallholders is critical to co-elaborate policy solutions to ongoing food security crises that are likely to be attuned with local conditions. Human and socio-cultural aspects need to be considered to facilitate both adoption and dissemination of adapted management practices. Despite this well-known need to co-produce knowledge in human systems, we demonstrate the inequality of current agricultural research in smallholder farming systems with heavy focus on a few domains of the sustainable intensification agricultural framework (SIAF), ultimately reducing the overall impact of interventions due to the lack compatibility with prevailing social contexts. Here we propose to integrate agriculture and agronomic models with social and demographic modeling approaches to increase agricultural productivity and food system resilience, while addressing persistent issues in food security. Researchers should consider the scale of interventions, ensure attention is paid to equality and political processes, explore local change interactions, and improve connection of agriculture with nutrition and health outcomes, via nutrition-sensitive agricultural investments.

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“…Migration is regarded as a significant factor in the overall well-being of migrants since it affects other critical factors, such as the availability of food and water security, access to education and employment opportunities, and access to healthcare ( Nayna Schwerdtle et al., 2021 ). Several studies have been conducted on climate-induced migration, climate-driven internal displacement, environmental migration, and general human displacement ( Hunter et al., 2021 ; Baldwin et al., 2019 ). People migrate to find better economic opportunities elsewhere by leaving their own country's hazards and shortcomings and the environment's threats and vulnerabilities ( Khatun et al., 2021 ).…”

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“…Since the 1980s, some researchers have argued that environmental migration may result in mass relocation, resulting in conflict, socio-economic vulnerability, and the resolution of problems ( Boas, 2014 ; Myers, 2002 ; Petrova, 2021 ). Regarding a climate-related incident causing widespread uncertainty amongst inhabitants of an affected area, internally displaced persons (IDPs) experience its effects according to the degree of their personal and place-specific vulnerabilities ( Lutz and Muttarak, 2017 ; Hunter et al., 2021 ). The inability to meet fundamental requirements is a significant contributor to displacement.…”

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Analysis of the livelihood and health of internally displaced persons due to riverbank erosion in Bangladesh

Kaiser

2023

Journal of Migration and Health

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Scales and sensitivities in climate vulnerability, displacement, and health

Cited by 23 publications

References 77 publications

Policy challenges and responses to environmental non-migration

Policy challenges and responses to environmental non-migration

Integrated modeling framework for sustainable agricultural intensification

Analysis of the livelihood and health of internally displaced persons due to riverbank erosion in Bangladesh

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