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Displaying 15 of about 60 resultsThis paper draws upon recent research in Ba Town to examine the drivers, patterns, and impacts of internal displacement linked with disasters. Disasters have triggered around 153,000 displacements in Fiji, since IDMC started systematically collecting data in 2008. Rapid urbanisation, particularly the growth of informal settlements, is increasing ex…
This publication summarises DECCMA's key findings on the present and future situation of deltas, highlights some of the impacts the research has had on policies and plans in Bangladesh, India and Ghana, and reflects on the capacity that has been built through the DECCMA project.
Deltas are home to 500 million people worldwide and known as a climate cha…
This report provides an overview of the internal displacements caused by conflicts and violence, and disasters. There were about 5.2 million new internal displacements associated with conflict and violence in the first half of 2018, based on the analysis of data from the 10 worst-affected countries. There were also about 3.3 million associated with disa…
The 2018 monsoon season lessons learnt report captures and analyses knowledge acquired by humanitarian actors during their operations preparing for and responding to monsoon impacts in the Rohingya refugee camps. The purpose is to provide a reference document for planning for future monsoon seasons, support evidence-based advocacy, and identify gaps in…
This report, which focuses on three regions—Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and Latin America that together represent 55 percent of the developing world’s population—finds that climate change will push tens of millions of people to migrate within their countries by 2050.
It projects that without concrete climate and development action, just over 143 mi…
This is the third edition of the Suffering in Silence report. The aim of this report is to highlight those humanitarian crises in 2018 that, though large, have received little public attention. In the final section, it also addresses the question of how to ensure better coverage, outlining eight steps to help shine a light on forgotten crises.
Using th…
Sea level rise and increased flooding are already affecting homes and communities across the United States. The hard truth is that these climate change impacts will make it increasingly difficult for people to stay in the places where they live today. Among the millions who could be displaced in the coming decades, many will need assistance to move to…
IDMC’s mid-year figures reveal the most significant new internal displacements associated with conflict, violence and disasters around the world between January and June 2019. The report serves as an important temperature gauge of global displacement halfway through the year, looking ahead to the trends and patterns expected in the months to come.
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Sea level rise due to climate change threatens areas where millions of Americans live. In all but the lowest projections, retreat or relocation of communities from coastal areas will be unavoidable, according to the U.S. Global Change Research Program.One way to prepare is to preemptively move away from vulnerable areas. But few communities have conside…
This study aims to clarify the extent to which Marshallese people are already migrating because of climate change, and the role affected ecosystem services play in their migration decisions. The research also aims to better understand the effects of this migration on migrants themselves, among communities in the RMI (in the capital of Majuro, and on Mej…
The purpose of this paper is to critically assess the operational aspect of pedestrian evacuation models for flash floods mitigation. A number of evacuation models exist in literature, but investigations of their operational aspects and efficient implementation are rare. Through a detailed real-life case study in Ras-Baalbek village-Lebanon, t…
This report summarizes the lessons learnt from the 2015-2016 El Niño event and represents a one UN approach to put these lessons into practice to reduce the impacts of future extreme climate events, and to help enhance the resilience of people across the Asia-Pacific Region. The report highlights key achievements in science and technology for under…
International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, volume 5, n. 2, February 2014, pp. 150-159:
This paper discusses vulnerability and population displacement issues, reviews existing policy frameworks, and suggests necessary policies and institutional frameworks with regard to natural disasters. The study identifies the interrelated aspects of po…
This study investigates whether individual characteristics, risk perception, self-efficacy and perceived social support correlate with the willingness to relocate due to floods and landslides. The data were collected from 947 people residing in Gümüşhane Province (Türkiye) using a survey. In the study, a total of ten models were tested with the help of…
The thematic report presents the first baseline for displacement risk associated with sudden-onset disasters in the countries of the Greater Horn of Africa with the ultimate aim of reducing future displacement risk. As sudden-onset natural hazards, primarily floods, caused more than 600,000 new displacements in 2016 in the Greater Horn of Africa, this r…