Richard Black, Dominic Kniveton, Kerstin Schmidt
This paper sets out a new approach to understanding the relationship between migration and climate change. Based on the understanding that migration is a significant, growing, but also complex phenomenon, this approach seeks to address the sensitivity of existing migration drivers in specific contex...
Marina Romanello, Maria Walawender, Shih-Che Hsu, Annalyse Moskeland et al.
Sonja Ayeb‐Karlsson, Dominic Kniveton, Terry Cannon
Abstract The concept of Trapped Populations has until date mainly referred to people ‘trapped’ in environmentally high-risk rural areas due to economic constraints. This article attempts to widen our understanding of the concept by investigating climate-induced socio-psychological immobility and its...
Max Martin, Motasim Billah, Tasneem Siddiqui, C.R. Abrar et al.
Sonja Ayeb‐Karlsson, Dominic Kniveton, Terry Cannon, Kees van der Geest et al.
While much work has been invested in addressing the economic and technical basis of disaster preparedness, less effort has been directed towards understanding the cultural and social obstacles to and opportunities for disaster risk reduction. This paper presents local insights from five different na...
Max Martin, Yi hyun Kang, Motasim Billah, Tasneem Siddiqui et al.
Abstract Recent research into migration in Bangladesh has highlighted that people migrate for better livelihoods, not necessarily in response to climatic stresses and shocks. If facilitated appropriately, internal and international migration can help build adaptive capacity to future environmental a...
Richard Black, Dominic Kniveton, Kerstin Schmidt
This paper sets out a new approach to understanding the relationship between migration and climate change. Based on the understanding that migration is a significant, growing, but also complex phenomenon, this approach seeks to address the sensitivity of existing migration drivers in specific contex...
Tasneem Siddiqui, Mohammad Rashed Alam Bhuiyan, Dominic Kniveton, Richard Black et al.
This chapter, ‘Situating migration in planned and autonomous adaptation practices to climate change in Bangladesh’, highlights policy discourse of Bangladesh viewing migration as a negative outcome of climate change. Such understanding led almost all the actors, that is, the Government of Bangladesh...