Human mobility

The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), part of the Norwegian Refugee Council, called on governments meeting in Sendai, Japan, later this week to tackle displacement as part of a new global plan to reduce disaster risk worldwide. ...'The world has a unique opportunity at Sendai to prevent millions of people from losing their homes by more robustly linking displacement risk with disaster risk reduction plans,' said IDMC director Alfredo Zamudio...

International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, volume 5, n. 2, February 2014, pp. 150-159:

This paper discusses vulnerability and population displacement issues, reviews existing policy frameworks, and suggests necessary policies and

This paper explores the impact of climate change on livelihood options that affect migrant workers in Indramayu District, Indonesia. In this paper, migration is considered as an adaptation measure used by affected community members facing the challenges

This is the fourth edition of IOM annual publications aiming to enhance understanding of natural disasters, sudden natural onset events and slow onset events, and their links to human mobility. It reviews case studies across continents, dealing with both

'Natural disasters displace three to 10 times more people than all conflicts and war in the world combined,' said Jan Egeland, head of the Norwegian Refugee Council which runs the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre in Geneva...

Migration can be one way people find of adapting to climate change. The IOM says: 'Migration in the face of global environmental change may not be just part of the ‘problem’, but can also be part of the solution.' A new IOM research programme will examine environmental factors influence on migration and impacts on policy making Vietnam, Papua New Guinea, Kenya, Mauritius, the Dominican Republic, and Haiti...

Countries vulnerable to extreme weather and rising seas should follow the example of small Pacific island states like Kiribati, and work out how to relocate threatened communities if there is no alternative, experts said at U.N. climate talks in Lima...

Zanzibar has begun relocating coastal families on the island of Pemba who are facing inundation from worsening high tides. Ten coastal families from Mijini Kiuyu who have seen their houses repeatedly flooded are being gradually relocated...