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Human mobility

Reducing, preparing for and responding to disaster displacement. Integrating disaster displacement and other related forms of human mobility into regional, national, sub-national and local DRR strategies.

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Early warning systems for mobile populations: Operational guidance thumbnail
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This operational guidance provides direction for designing and implementing people-centred, inclusive multi-hazard early warning systems that effectively reach and protect mobile populations and other groups affected by changing locations or circumstances

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
The complex links between food security, migration, and fragility in Northern Central America thumbnail
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This report examines the interlinked dynamics of fragility, food insecurity, shocks, and migration in the Northern Central America (NCA) region, composed of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.

World Bank, the
Planned relocation policies and practices: lessons from Fiji, Bangladesh, and Peru  thumbnail
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This brief examines key components of government-led planned relocation frameworks in Fiji, Bangladesh, and Peru, including their impacts on communities and lessons for policymakers developing and implementing similar plans.

Natural Resources Defense Council
Mapping hazard-access mismatches in wildfire evacuation systems: a multi-facility accessibility framework thumbnail
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This study proposes a Wildfire Evacuation Resource Index (WERI) quantifies census-tract accessibility to emergency shelters, hospitals, lodging, gas stations, and EV charging stations within a three-step floating catchment area framework.

npj Natural Hazards (Nature)
A disaster risk and resilience analysis framework provides insights for modelling natural hazard-induced human mobility thumbnail
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This research presents a conceptual disaster risk and resilience framework for modelling natural hazard-induced human mobility, centring on household objective well-being as the key determinant of voluntary, involuntary, and planned movement outcomes.

Communications Earth & Environment (Nature)
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Depopulation in the state’s coastal communities has been significant since Hurricane Katrina, an extremely powerful and destructive storm that hit the state in August 2005. It was responsible for 1833 deaths and approximately $108 billion in damage.

Climate Adaptation Platform (CAP)
Advancing gender-transformative action in human mobility in the context of climate change thumbnail
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This publication explores how climate mobility programmes can move beyond gender-responsive approaches towards more gender-transformative change.

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
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Millions of Afghans forced back across the border are returning to a country where conflict, climate and hardship make rebuilding fragile from the start.

Dialogue Earth
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Planned relocation
Planned relocation
These resources analyse how well-planned relocations can help to increase resilience and reduce disaster risk.