Research priorities for climate mobility

One Earth, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 7(4), С. 589 - 607

Опубликована: Март 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.

Язык: Английский

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‘My appetite and mind would go’: Inuit perceptions of (im)mobility and wellbeing loss under climate change across Inuit Nunangat in the Canadian Arctic

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 11(1)

Опубликована: Фев. 16, 2024

Abstract The academic literature on personal experiences of climate-induced wellbeing erosion (often conceptualised as ‘non-economic losses and damages’) is still limited. This represents a serious climate policy gap that hinders support for marginalised people across the world including Indigenous People. Lately, we have seen rapid growth in empirical studies exploring linkages between change mental health among Inuit Canada. However, its association with human (im)mobility remains unexplored. review article brings together evidence perceptions climate-related loss while providing guidance appropriate action. systematic investigates how Arctic Canada felt climatic changes impacted their putting these feelings into wider context colonial violence, forced child removal, residential schools, other rights abuses. Twelve electronic databases (four specific to research) were searched English French, peer reviewed, qualitative published 2000 2021. Fifteen selected articles analysed using NVivo thematic narrative analysis from climate-violence-health nexus systems approach. Three overarching themes, all strongly intertwined immobility, emerged namely ‘identity cultural loss’, ‘land connection source healing’, ‘changing environment triggering emotional distress’. narratives circled around land temporary interrupted this relationship. Climatic isolated away cut off ability partake activities. eroded wellbeing, expressed through distress, anxiety, depression, social tension, suicide ideation deep loss. findings showed depend sustained land. Further research People or nomadic groups involuntary immobility urgently needed. Future should particularly explore such impacts tie past present (post)colonial traumas current occurrences. will help policy, research, adaptation planning better prepare propose more contextually culturally actions future.

Язык: Английский

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Climate Mobilities and Mobility Justice

Regional Environmental Change, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 25(2)

Опубликована: Апрель 1, 2025

Язык: Английский

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Strengthening the science–policy interface in the climate migration field

International Migration, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 61(5), С. 75 - 97

Опубликована: Март 8, 2023

Abstract The question of how climatic changes and hazards affect human mobility has increasingly gained prominence in public debates over the past decade. Despite improvements scientific understanding subject advancements policy, major gaps remain addressing humanitarian socio‐economic challenges related to climate migration. In this perspectives article, we argue for a holistic approach closer integration science policy involving diverse stakeholders process knowledge generation implementation. We identify five key characteristic improving science–policy interface: (i) conflictual political contexts securitization migration, (ii) simplistic narratives framing subject, (iii) uneven production dissemination knowledge, (iv) limited data analytical capacities (v) selective topical methodological focus. To address these challenges, there is need more bridging initiatives at interface that integrate disciplines, approaches stakeholders. A engagement researchers policymakers form multi‐stakeholder exchanges, capacity‐building activities, co‐development co‐implementation processes integrative assessments can help bridge gap support inclusive development comprehensive policies.

Язык: Английский

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Beyond the binary of trapped populations and voluntary immobility: A people-centered perspective on environmental change and human immobility at Lake Urmia, Iran

Global Environmental Change, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 84, С. 102803 - 102803

Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2024

Empirical research on the links between environmental change and human (im)mobility has made considerable progress in last decade. However, most attention is given to migration rather than understanding immobility, where human-centered perspectives are scarce various regions remain critically understudied. This paper seeks address these deficits. Methodologically based 75 qualitative in-depth interviews 8 focus group sessions with rural residents around desiccating Lake Urmia (Iran), study takes individual perceptions of degradation lived experiences immobility as its fundamental starting point. It investigates what (in)tangible losses occur analyses matters shaping aspirations capabilities migrate or stay. The findings provide unique empirical evidence multifaceted dimensions along spectrum moving beyond prevailing binary views voluntary trapped populations. A key finding this elucidation 'ambivalent immobility', comprising individuals whose complex contradictory: they want stay, but also leave, constantly weighing their growing local dissatisfaction against attachments place psychological/economic costs migration. Another novel contribution concerns 'precarious expanding our knowledge how understand themselves trapped. Grounded capability constraints emotional distress exacerbated by change, from did not voice any aspirations. distinguished them involuntary acquiescent immobile study, who despite either aspired expressed a preference Thus, highlights complexity contexts underscores need for more complement quantitative efforts foster nuanced diverse causes, dimensions, consequences immobility.

Язык: Английский

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Two faces of vulnerability: Distinguishing susceptibility to harm and system resilience in climate adaptation

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 14(6)

Опубликована: Авг. 13, 2023

Abstract In the climate adaptation literature, we can distinguish two seemingly distinct frameworks for concept of vulnerability. We might think vulnerability in terms susceptibility to harm. Some discussions accordingly focus on risk posed well‐being. Alternatively, a system's responsiveness adverse conditions, often spelled out resilience. This article highlights and distinguishes these through brief survey literature. Understanding relationship between is vital not only conceptual clarity, but also developing strategies that respond different sorts vulnerabilities by change. Mitigating an individual at harm well complicate efforts mitigating systems which embedded. Humans are clearly from changing climate, challenges resilience humans depend. The paper concludes with consideration arise dissociation people their environments. Dissociation, whether migration or changes environmental background conditions makes clear dual nature vulnerabilities, serves as lens consider prospects integrating more cohesive account into successful strategies. categorized under: Climate, Nature, Ethics > Climate Change Vulnerability Adaptation Values‐Based Approach

Язык: Английский

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Region power for mobilities research

Australian Geographer, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 54(3), С. 251 - 275

Опубликована: Июль 3, 2023

In this Thinking Space essay, we explain why the COVID-19 pandemic makes mobilities research more important than ever. a time when have been reconfigured so dramatically, perhaps even leading people to value mobility differently, need concepts and theories that can help us attend navigate new situation. Our contention is must recentre region. Building on earlier work in paradigm, suggest ways regionality be conceptualised, argue our part of world take distinctive manifestations warrant attention. essay concludes by pointing directions for from

Язык: Английский

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Wellbeing in the aftermath of floods: Findings from a qualitative study in Bongaigaon District of Assam, India

Wellbeing Space and Society, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 4, С. 100147 - 100147

Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2023

The study presents key findings on the outcomes of psychological wellbeing in aftermath a flood as well interplay social, institutional, and environmental processes that influence wellbeing. Eight focused group discussions 15 informant interviews were conducted five villages Bongaigaon District Assam six months after devastating floods occurred August 2021. Four themes are identified concern presence or absence institutions agencies, social capital, secondary stressors, availability resources. Participants bemoan institutional inability to support reliable early warning system strong structural measures protect them from flooding. majorities residents area make livelihood out subsistence farming have limited Shared helplessness mobilise assistance led development camaraderie. When it comes sharing insurance information, displaced people report envious nature community, where members seek best for themselves before anyone else. resources restrict scope profit accrued networks. Relocation substandard shelters, children's academic impairment, potential loss community properties burden repairing them, visitors coming see their predicament stressors impair It is also reported those who able migrate already left; remaining temporary migration too costly an option, they seeking intervention.

Язык: Английский

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Postcolonial lessons and migration from climate change: ongoing injustice and hope

npj Climate Action, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 2(1)

Опубликована: Авг. 21, 2023

Abstract The 2022 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reported that the ongoing impacts of colonisation compromise ability many peoples to adapt effects climate change. interaction between justice and postcolonial raises important questions about interconnectedness common causes coloniality anthropogenic We recognise a dynamic interaction, it is feature necropolitics causing both Through grounded experience cultural traditions in Pacific Islands countries (PICs), use transdisciplinary anticipatory systems resilience theories, we proffer conceptual models show how IPCC scenarios can be used assist justice, but also forewarn deepen injustice. There are strident expressions within PICs proactively engage restorative justice. Our summarise this as an emerging multi-scalar process, which term tri-SSM. argue tri-SSM hopeful regenerative kernel empowering vulnerable communities, including their proactive migration.

Язык: Английский

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A global mental health opportunity: How can cultural concepts of distress broaden the construct of immobility?

Global Environmental Change, Год журнала: 2022, Номер 77, С. 102594 - 102594

Опубликована: Ноя. 1, 2022

(Im)mobility studies often focus on people the move, neglecting those who stay, are immobile, or trapped. The duality of COVID-19 pandemic and climate crisis creates a global mental health challenge, impacting most structurally oppressed, including immobile populations. construct immobility is investigated in context socio-political variables but lacks examination clinical psychological factors that impact immobility. Research beginning to identify self-reported emotions populations experience through describing metaphors like

Язык: Английский

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