Prioritizing involuntary immobility in climate policy and disaster planning

Nature Communications, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 16(1)

Опубликована: Март 16, 2025

Abstract Globally, populations are increasingly located in areas at high risk of climate change impacts. Some lack the agency to move out harm’s way, leading involuntary immobility. The risks these face insufficiently addressed policy and disaster planning. While planning should be data-informed, appropriate data not limit governments institutions from taking action reduce Incorporating immobility within broader sustainable development goals safe, orderly, regular migration may substantially

Язык: Английский

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Funding rules that promote equity in climate adaptation outcomes

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 122(2)

Опубликована: Янв. 7, 2025

Many climate policies adopt improving equity as a key objective. A challenge is that often conceive of in terms individuals but introduce strategies focus on spatially coarse administrative areas. For example, the Justice40 Initiative United States requires 518 diverse federal programs to prioritize funds for “disadvantaged” census tracts. This strategy largely untested and contrasts with government’s definition “consistent systematic fair, just impartial treatment all (Executive Office President, Federal Register, 2021).” How well does approach improve adaptation outcomes across ? We analyze this question using case study municipality faces repetitive flooding struggles effectively manage these risks due limited resources public investment. find way Emergency Management Agency implements can be an obstacle promoting household flood-risk outcomes. study, ensuring majority benefits accrue “Justice40 Communities” not reduce risk most burdened households, risk-burden inequality, produces net costs. In contrast, we design simple funding rules based burden cost-effectively target large benefits. Our findings suggest “disadvantaged community” indicators defined at spatial scales face poorly capturing many ineffective meeting promises about climate-related investments.

Язык: Английский

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Facing involuntary immobility: Prioritizing the marginalized in climate and disaster risk policy

Research Square (Research Square), Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Янв. 17, 2025

Globally, populations are increasingly located in areas at high risk of frequent, extreme weather events. Some exposed have the ability to move safer places; others unable get out harm’s way. The climate risks facing these involuntary immobile not often addressed by local and national authorities, despite increasing recognition international development agencies humanitarian actors. Here we discuss when how events lead immobility considering influence political, socioeconomic, environmental factors. Addressing barriers policy disaster planning, early warning systems anticipatory action could be tailored support involuntarily communities. While planning should data-informed, lack appropriate data quality limit governments institutions from taking action. Immobility needs aligned with broader sustainable objectives which entail justice orderly migration.

Язык: Английский

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Spatial assessment of current and future migration in response to climate risks in Ghana and Nigeria

Frontiers in Climate, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 7

Опубликована: Фев. 26, 2025

West Africa’s vulnerability to climate change is influenced by a complex interplay of socio-economic and environmental factors, exacerbated the region’s reliance on rain-fed agriculture. Climate variability, combined with rapid population growth, intensifies existing challenges. Migration has become key adaptive response these challenges, enabling communities diversify livelihoods enhance resilience. However, spatial patterns migration in risks are not fully understood. Thus, study evaluates applicability IPCC risk assessment framework map predict Ghana Nigeria, focus identifying areas potential out-migration. By integrating geospatial environmental, socio-economic, data, highlights that have higher likelihood for current baseline near future (2050). Future modeled using CMIP6 projections under RCP4.5 scenario, while providing insight into exposure. The results from compared actual migrant motivations, ground-level perspective drivers. In northern elevated hazard, vulnerability, exposure scores suggest due overall faced population. This pattern projected persist future. responses indicate factors often play secondary role, cited more frequently as findings highlight importance developing localized adaptation strategies address specific needs vulnerable areas. Additionally, management community resilience support sustainable pathways will be critical addressing climate-induced

Язык: Английский

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Finding mobility in place attachment research: lessons for managed retreat

Frontiers in Climate, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 7

Опубликована: Фев. 11, 2025

Climate change will affect many global landscapes in the future, requiring millions of people to move away from areas at risk flooding, erosion, drought and extreme temperatures. The term managed retreat is increasingly used Global North refer movement infrastructure climate risks. Managed retreat, however, has proven be one most difficult adaptation options undertake because complex economic, social-cultural psychological factors that shape individual community responses relocation process. Among these factors, place attachment expected possibilities for disrupts bonds identities individuals communities have invested place. Research intersection limited, partially are complicated constructs, each with confusing terminologies. By viewing concept as a form mobility-based adaptation, this paper attempts gain insights other mobility-related fields. We find mobility research contributed development more dynamic view attachment: such explored role either constraining or prompting decisions relocate, started explore how process responds disruptions influences recovery relocation. Beyond informing scholars practitioners, synthesis identifies several need attention. These needs include qualitative better understand dualistic attachments longitudinal about experiences fully comprehend during after relocation, increased exploration whether can help provide stability continuity

Язык: Английский

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A dual-continuum framework to evaluate climate change impacts on mental health

Nature Mental Health, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 2(11), С. 1318 - 1326

Опубликована: Окт. 31, 2024

Язык: Английский

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Funding rules that promote equity in climate adaptation outcomes

Опубликована: Май 24, 2024

Many climate policies adopt improving equity as a key objective. A challenge is that often conceive of in terms individuals but introduce strategies focus on spatially coarse administrative areas. For example, the Justice40 Initiative United States requires 518 diverse federal programs to prioritize funds for “disadvantaged” census tracts. This strategy largely untested and contrasts with government’s definition “consistent systematic fair, just impartial treatment all (1).” How well does approach improve adaptation outcomes across individuals? We analyze this question using case study municipality faces repetitive flooding struggles effectively manage these risks due limited resources public investment. find way Federal Emergency Management Agency implements can be an obstacle promoting household flood-risk outcomes. study, ensuring majority benefits accrue “Justice40 Communities” not reduce risk most burdened households, risk-burden inequality, produces net costs. In contrast, we design simple funding based burden cost-effectively target large benefits. Our findings suggest “disadvantaged community” indicators defined at spatial scales face poorly capturing many ineffective meeting promises about climate-related investments.

Язык: Английский

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Introduction to the special section: unfolding a governance perspective on climate-related mobilities

Climate and Development, Год журнала: 2024, Номер unknown, С. 1 - 10

Опубликована: Июль 23, 2024

Attention to the linkages between climate change and human mobility practices – including immobility has mounted as climate-related becomes more evident. Research policy engagement have followed, with increasing recognition of complexity countering simplistic causal models. In this introduction special section, we seek specifically highlight relationship governance mobility. The relevance governance, which consider broadly through lens political authority, is a growing undercurrent in research. This section seeks therefore explicitly theorize role shaping examine it empirically, building on recent developments within literature. Through theoretical analytical discussion four empirically based contributions from South North America West Africa Horn Africa, unfolds diverse perspectives approaches contexts practices, particularly relation slow-onset change. Ultimately, engage scholars further theorizing

Язык: Английский

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Reflexiones sobre la relación entre cambio climático y movilidades: perspectivas de gobernanza, securitismo y justicia

REMHU Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade Humana, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 32

Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2024

Resumen En los últimos años la cuestión de las movilidades climáticas ha sido objeto considerable discusión, no solo en escenarios internacionales gobernanza climática, sino también academia y el ámbito más amplio cooperación internacional. ese sentido, este artículo se propone hacer una revisión narrativa literatura existente sobre tema, a partir cual identificar algunos desafíos para agenda investigación futura, especial aquella ligada humanas que, nuestro criterio, corre riesgo ceder al securitismo. Por contrario, apostamos por reflexión política fenómeno, enfatizar justicia migrante climática como ejes acción futura.

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