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Displaying 30 of about 527 resultsDisplaced individuals and communities, such as internally displaced persons (IDPs) and refugees, are often marginalised within their host communities (Pollock et al., 2019). Marginalised populations have been presumed to be highly vulnerable to disasters (Lejano, Rahman, and Kabir, 2020). Here, disasters are understood as the societal damages, losses an…
By Sebastien Malo
NEW YORK - Deadly floods that bear the fingerprints of climate change are prompting an exodus of workers from the U.S. Midwest, the world's biggest professional social network, LinkedIn, said on Wednesday.
The website, on which millions of U.S. workers maintain profiles, said data showed a spike in members changing their work locatio…
By Becky Alexis-Martin, Lecturer at the Manchester Metropolitan University; James Dyke, Senior Lecturer at the University of Exeter; Jonathon Turnbull, PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge; and Stephanie Malin, Associate Professor at Colorado State University
The evidence of the climate crisis is now undeniable. But state responses to…
By Adrienne Surprenant
Weeks of torrential rain have caused severe flooding in Central African Republic’s capital, Bangui, leaving tens of thousands of people homeless in a city of one million that is still recovering from years of conflict.
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Heavy rainfall and flooding – driven by a weather phenomenon called the Indian Ocean Dipole –…
By Mark Willacy
Internal Australian Defence Force (ADF) briefing notes from last year, obtained by the ABC under Freedom of Information, also predict the military may be forced to increase patrols in Australia's northern waters to deal with "sea-borne migration" sparked by rising sea levels in the Indo-Pacific.
One document warns that climate change c…
As wilder weather drives more people from their homes, the world needs emissions cuts, better resilience and to protect the rights of those on the move
By Sven Harmeling, global policy lead on climate change and resilience for CARE International
According to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, in 2017 more than 18.8 million people were displa…
By KumKum Dasgupta
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While the Patnaik government did well to weather Cyclone Fani — the state mobilised resources and personnel to evacuate more than a million people — and save lives, the challenges ahead of the state now will be equally gargantuan. “While restoring infrastructure will be one aspect of the challenge, rebuilding lives of poor peo…
By Jatindra Dash and Serajul Quadir
A cyclone barrelled into eastern India on Friday, damaging houses in the tourist town of Puri and wounding 160 people after a million people were moved into storm shelters.
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Indian government spokesman Sitanshu Kar said there were no reports of deaths but 160 people were believed injured.
Bangladesh's junior…
Zaynab stands next to the remnants of her home she used to share with her six children before it was destroyed by early season rainstorms that brought strong winds and rain to north-east Nigeria.
“I was in the market in the afternoon when the storm came but my six children were inside the house,” said Zaynab as she prepares a meal to break…
By Victoria Herrmann, Managing Director of The Arctic Institute and a National Geographic Explorer
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Sea level rise, wildfires and extreme weather events are already causing the displacement and resettlement of communities on every continent. As families face the physical, mental and spiritual health challenges of dislocation and seek new homes on…
Odisha's Special Relief Commissioner's team mobilised 50,000 volunteers, police officers, boats, buses and trains to evacuate more than a million people to shelters
By Annie Banerji
From mass texting to mobilising 50,000 volunteers, the Indian official who masterminded the evacuation of more than a million people revealed on Thursday how they were mov…
In collaboration with the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), the Platform on Disaster Displacement (PDD) and the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), DISPLACEMENT: Uncertain Journeys will present an exhibition of contemporary art pieces from nine international artists to highlight disaster displacement during the Global Platform for Di…
By Anna Wellenstein and Mika-Petteri Torhonen
Droughts, floods, hurricanes, and other disasters displaced over 24 million people in 2016. When people leave their homes behind, land records offer critical protection of their property rights. This is crucial, as land and homes are usually the main assets that people have. Land an…
By A.R. Siders, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
Destructive storms like Hurricanes Florence and Michael prompt difficult conversations about whether to rebuild or retreat. Retreat is an established part of U.S. flood management: Government agencies have been paying people to move out of harm’s w…
By Dr. Saleemul Huq
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The fourth and final day [of the fifth annual Gobeshona Conference] consisted of a science-policy-dialogue with senior policymakers with whom the scientists shared some of the latest research findings and also received advice on what kinds of research would help the decision-makers in future. The annual Gobeshona Confere…