Climate migration management? Contrasting international policy approaches with evidence from Ghana DOI Creative Commons

Lily Salloum Lindegaard,

Francis Xavier Jarawura, Nauja Kleist

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Climate Policy, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 1 - 16

Published: Nov. 6, 2024

Donors and international organizations are seeking to manage migration out of climate-affected areas through local climate change adaptation resilience-building. This article assesses the prominence such approaches, considers their possible efficacy an empirical case, identifies weaknesses, offers alternatives. First, we identify discuss policy approaches shape climate-related mobility, drawing on document review bilateral donor organizations' strategy documents regarding migration. Then, consider in place, or 'in situ', that emphasize limit mobility practice. is a case-based analysis dams irrigation dry savannah zone Northern Ghana, where poverty outmigration highest country, severely undermines rural livelihoods. Donor-supported national efforts this region explicitly link situ resilience-building with aims outmigration. In addition extensive background research including historical analysis, satellite data household survey (n = 403), particular case based individual key informant interviews 16 8, respectively), focus group discussions 6) from Upper West Region. We significant limitations broadly relevant approaches: they unlikely address diverse impacts as well non-climatic factors shaping migration, will likely struggle accommodate highly differentiated needs, preferences patterns within populations. Conversely, find reduce dominate among policies – often over reduction development outcomes. These findings call for rethinking domestic seek resilience building. Rather, there need choice-oriented constructively integrate options improved

Language: Английский

Migration and sustainable development DOI Creative Commons
W. Neil Adger, Sonja Fransen, Ricardo Safra de Campos

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 121(3)

Published: Jan. 8, 2024

To understand the implications of migration for sustainable development requires a comprehensive consideration range population movements and their feedback across space time. This Perspective reviews emerging science at interface studies, demography, sustainability, focusing on consequences flows nature-society interactions including societal outcomes such as inequality; environmental causes involuntary displacement; processes cultural convergence in sustainability practices dynamic new populations. We advance framework that demonstrates how result identifiable resources, burdens well-being, innovation, adaptation, challenges governance. elaborate research frontiers science, explicitly integrating full spectrum regular decisions dominated by economic motives through to displacement due social or stresses. Migration can potentially contribute transitions when it enhances well-being while not exacerbating structural inequalities compound uneven resources.

Language: Английский

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Research priorities for climate mobility DOI Creative Commons
Nicholas P. Simpson, Katharine J. Mach, Mark Tebboth

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One Earth, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 7(4), P. 589 - 607

Published: March 8, 2024

The escalating impacts of climate change on the movement and immobility people, coupled with false but influential narratives mobility, highlight an urgent need for nuanced synthetic research around mobility. Synthesis evidence gaps across Intergovernmental Panel Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report a to clarify understanding what conditions make human mobility effective adaptation option its outcomes, including simultaneous losses, damages, benefits. Priorities include integration development planning; involuntary vulnerability; gender; data cities; risk from responses maladaptation; public risk; transboundary, compound, cascading risks; nature-based approaches; planned retreat, relocation, heritage. Cutting these priorities, modalities better position as type process, praxis. Policies practices reflect diverse needs, experiences emphasizing capability, choice, freedom movement.

Language: Английский

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Bad year econometrics: Agent-based modeling of risk management strategies under varying regimes of environmental change DOI Creative Commons
Colin D. Wren, Iza Romanowska, Felix Riede

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Science Advances, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 11(3)

Published: Jan. 17, 2025

Resilience—the ability of socio-ecological systems to withstand and recover from shocks—is a key research policy focus. Definitions resilience differ between disciplines, however, the term remains inadequately operationalized. Resilience is outcome variable behavioral decisions, yet process itself strategies behind it have rarely been addressed quantitatively. We present an agent-based model integrating four common risk management strategies, observed in past societies. Model outcomes under different environmental regimes, relation case studies, provide mapping efficacy (success harm prevention) efficiency (cost strategies. This formalization unravels historical contingency dynamic socio-natural processes context crises. In discriminating successful failed deployed past—the emergent which resilience—we are better placed understand some degree predict their utility contemporary world.

Language: Английский

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Placing Migration: Towards More‐Than‐Relational Geographical Migration Studies DOI Creative Commons
Linn Axelsson, Charlotta Hedberg

Population Space and Place, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 31(2)

Published: Jan. 22, 2025

ABSTRACT This paper critically engages with the spatial assumptions that underpin migration studies, highlighting a shift from an absolute view of space to relational perspective, influenced by transnational and translocal studies. While latter emphasises interconnectedness migrants across borders fleeting links involved in production places, this argues timeplace which sees places as products temporally entangled, partially inertial plastic connectivities, material objects, discursive practices, can contribute overcome dichotomies between process product Using case Åsele municipality northern Sweden, illustrates how perspective enrich understanding dynamics, potentially reconcile tensions essentialist fluid worldviews scholarship. Ultimately, it suggests contextual might be next logical step for

Language: Английский

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Migration and sustainable development. DOI Creative Commons
W. Neil Adger, Sonja Fransen, Ricardo Safra de Campos

et al.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 121(3), P. e2206193121 - e2206193121

Published: Jan. 16, 2024

To understand the implications of migration for sustainable development requires a comprehensive consideration range population movements and their feedback across space time. This Perspective reviews emerging science at interface studies, demography, sustainability, focusing on consequences flows nature-society interactions including societal outcomes such as inequality; environmental causes involuntary displacement; processes cultural convergence in sustainability practices dynamic new populations. We advance framework that demonstrates how result identifiable resources, burdens well-being, innovation, adaptation, challenges governance. elaborate research frontiers science, explicitly integrating full spectrum regular decisions dominated by economic motives through to displacement due social or stresses. Migration can potentially contribute transitions when it enhances well-being while not exacerbating structural inequalities compound uneven resources.

Language: Английский

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Sugarcane sustainability in a changing climate: a systematic review on pests, diseases, and adaptive strategies DOI Creative Commons

Bahati Hakimu Msomba,

Patrick Madulu Ndaki, Charles O. Joseph

et al.

Frontiers in Agronomy, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 6

Published: Aug. 12, 2024

The cultivation of sugarcane ( Saccharum officinarum L.) in the face climate change requires robust strategies for managing pests, diseases, and weeds. This systematic review exposes critical deficiencies current practices underscores need climate-adaptive strategies. Climate differentially influences pest behaviour, disease progression, weed growth across various regions, yet lack region-specific responses impairs effective management. emphasizes necessity localized approaches that consider specific climatic conditions development predictive models to anticipate outbreaks. These include Decision Support Systems (DSS), Vector Machines (SVM), Susceptible-Exposed-Infectious-Recovered (SEIR) models, Geographic Information (GIS), Species Distribution Models (SDMs), Agricultural Production sIMulator (APSIM), Integrated Pest Management (IPM). Crucial encompass integrated management, adaptive breeding, precision agriculture, ongoing innovation. Precision agriculture technologies, such as remote sensing drones, enable early detection prompt interventions. By adopting these measures addressing existing research gaps, industry can bolster its resilience maintain productivity amidst evolving conditions. Systematic registration https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n71 .

Language: Английский

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Social resilience within the carescapes of Asian female migrant aged care workers DOI Creative Commons
Monika Winarnita,

Carmela Leone,

Thomas R. Klassen

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Frontiers in Public Health, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 13

Published: April 14, 2025

Increasingly, Asian female migrants are playing a significant role in meeting Australia’s aged care workforce demand. This article analyses the lived experiences of workers using carescape concept, and theory agency to understand access availability. It aims identify wider institutional social structures that influence their contribute resilience as critical member workforce. Qualitative data were used for analysis; specifically, semi-structured interviews which conducted with 10 migrant from sector. Analysis reveals both challenge facilitate agency, thus industry. The findings provide deeper understanding highlights developing support networks resilience. Workplace policies practices adaptation transformation this important industry retention workers.

Language: Английский

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Scientific frontiers on migration and sustainability DOI Creative Commons
W. Neil Adger, Sonja Fransen, Ricardo Safra de Campos

et al.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 121(3)

Published: Jan. 8, 2024

Understanding the biological basis of social anxiety disorder (SAD), one most disabling disorders, will allow for novel treatment strategies to be developed. Here, we show that gut microbiota may such a target. Mice ...Social (SAD) is crippling psychiatric characterized by intense fear or in situations and their avoidance. However, underlying biology SAD unclear better treatments are needed. Recently, ...

Language: Английский

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Rural migration under climate and land systems change DOI
Jonathan Salerno, Andrea E. Gaughan, Rekha Warrier

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Nature Sustainability, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 7(9), P. 1092 - 1101

Published: Aug. 16, 2024

Language: Английский

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Mapping socio-environmental vulnerability to assess rural migration in Ghana DOI Creative Commons
Alina Schürmann, Janina Kleemann, Mike Teucher

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Applied Geography, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 167, P. 103283 - 103283

Published: May 3, 2024

Rural communities in Ghana, dependent on agriculture and lacking resources infrastructure, are highly vulnerable to climate environmental change. Internal migration is often considered as a strategy mitigate local livelihood constraints. Understanding the challenges of rural requires knowledge conditions. As only few studies have mapped areas context Ghana at spatially explicit nationwide level, this study provides geodata-based examination how multiple, co-occurring socio-economic factors influencing migration. A multifactorial expert-based weighted overlay analysis was applied, integrating diverse data sources including climate, remote sensing, recent census from Ghana. Bivariate maps visualize where high impact coincides with population density. High levels factor observed northern regions coastal Relatively low found more central parts country. The results align current net rates, confirming applicability our method for assessing internal This enhances understanding dynamics emphasizes role spatial studies.

Language: Английский

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