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

Lily Salloum Lindegaard,

Francis Xavier Jarawura, Nauja Kleist

и другие.

Climate Policy, Год журнала: 2024, Номер unknown, С. 1 - 16

Опубликована: Ноя. 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

Язык: Английский

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

Lily Salloum Lindegaard,

Francis Xavier Jarawura, Nauja Kleist

и другие.

Climate Policy, Год журнала: 2024, Номер unknown, С. 1 - 16

Опубликована: Ноя. 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

Язык: Английский

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