Inclusion

Southasiadisasters.net issue no. 136, September 2015:

This issue of Southasiadisasters.net highlights the need and techniques of engaging children as active stakeholders in shaping disaster risk reduction (DRR) policies and practices in South Asia. An

This policy brief analyses the success factors of relocation programmes by drawing on studies on relocation projects in the Mekong River Delta in Viet Nam, as well as research carried out as part of the European Union-funded Migration, Environment and

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Migración, Medio Ambiente y Cambio Climático: Serie de Notas de Políticas, Número 7, Vol. 1, Noviembre de 2015:

Los flujos migratorios siempre han caracterizado la historia de la República Dominicana. La migración interna es un fenómeno

This policy brief explores how different forms of human mobility relate to household vulnerability in three Haitian municipalities: La Marmelade, Les Gonaïves and Port-au-Prince.

On the weekend of 28 and 29 November, hundreds of thousands of people marched around the world, showing the overwhelming public demand for urgent action on climate change. Now is the moment for millions of us to declare that we all share a vision of a better future and demand that our leaders put it into practice. A world free of poverty, inequalities and climate change is within our reach...

The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) observes that the effects of the climate-related extreme weather events of recent years, including heat waves, droughts, flooding, cyclones, and forest and brush fires, show how vulnerable and exposed societies and ecosystems really are. People living in poverty are particularly vulnerable...

'Women bear severe gendered impacts of climate change but systematically lack equal representation in decision-making. That’s a problem' however, 'despite their vulnerabilities, women contribute to both adaptation and mitigation efforts in many parts of the world through creative, localized solutions.' write Mary Robinson and Melanne Verveer in an opinion piece in the Guardian...

Increasingly, as attention is being devoted to the human mobility and climate nexus, we hear more calls from various actors – from states to civil society and academia to design and implement policies for climate adaptation that include a migration component. The diversity of viewpoints on this topic reflects the universality of this concern and brings to the fore very tangible questions...