Handbook on Climate Mobility

Edited by Bayes Ahmed, Associate Professor in Risk and Disaster Science, Department of Risk and Disaster Reduction, University College London, UK and Bishawjit Mallick, Associate Professor of Climate Change and International Development Studies, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, the Netherlands

‘This Handbook provides a multidisciplinary examination of climate (im)mobility, situating it within broader socio-political, economic, and environmental contexts, and highlighting the regional and country-specific complexities of this humanitarian challenge. The book challenges dominant Eurocentric narratives, examining the heterogeneous experiences of (im)mobility across regions—from the Sahel and Horn of Africa to Asia, Europe, and the Americas, while drawing on the expertise of leading scholars, policymakers, and practitioners.’

• ContentsForeword xxiAndrew HarperPreface and acknowledgements xxiiBayes Ahmed and Bishawjit MallickIntroduction: Towards a just and inclusive framework for climate (im)mobility 1Bayes Ahmed and Bishawjit MallickPART I CONCEPTUAL AND THEORETICAL ADVANCEMENTS1 Towards an evidence-based action agenda on the climate-(im)mobility (un)nexus(es) 30Ilan Kelman and Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson2 Climate refugees or disaster displaced persons: common terminology to enhance policy coherence 48Timo Schmidt and Sarah Koeltzow3 The climate mobilities approach, its theoretical basis and methodological implications 66Hanne Wiegel, Ingrid Boas and Carol Farbotko4 Rethinking dominant narratives on climate mobilities: a cosmopolitan approach beyond binaries, exclusion, securitisation, and depoliticisation 82Irene Sacchetti, Natalia Chirinos Arévalo and Dinushika Yapa AbeywardhanaPART II VULNERABILITY, GENDER, AND SOCIAL DIMENSIONS5 Advancing policy avenues for addressing vulnerabilities by gender in climate change migration and displacement 101Francesca Rosignoli6 Gender in climate (im)mobility governance: insights from Peru and Chile 118Hanne Wiegel and Astrid Carolayn Morales Villalobos7 Gendered dimensions of climate mobilities in the Northern Bolivian Altiplano 138Ximena Flores-Palacios and Cloe Barbera8 From livelihoods to empowerment: What else matters for women during climate mobility in the Global South? 166Azreen KarimPART III POLICY, GOVERNANCE, AND INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORKS9 Governing the climate-mobility nexus: frameworks, institutions, and perspectives 192Benjamin Schraven10 Embarking of UNHCR on climate mobility: de facto or de jure expansion of international refugee law regime? 208K. M. S. Tareq11 Legal protection for climate migrants: a Canadian perspective 224Rachel Bryce12 Modelling climate mobility responses to policy decisions in vulnerable coastal areas: a case study from Thiruvananthapuram, India 242Aysha Jennath and Saikat Paul13 Bridging policy gaps in the climate change, human mobility, and security nexus in Guatemala: from scientific evidence to policy integration 268Ignacio Madurga-Lopez, Julian Higuera-Florez, Cesare Scartozzi and Frans Schapendonk14 Climate change and human mobility challenges in Pakistan: a policy perspective 286Saeed A. Khan and Atle SolbergPART IV METHODOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS AND EMPIRICAL STUDIES15 Collecting data on human mobility due to climate and environmental change: an overview of the Displacement Tracking Matrix 310Nando Lewis, Elizabeth Griesmer and Sokhna Sy16 Rapid rise of slow-onset hazards: unpacking methodological caveats to monitoring displacements with case studies from Asia and the Pacific 329Thannaletchimy Housset and Ryan Mitra17 Towards a comprehensive approach to climate mobility in Asia and the Pacific 346Lorena Ciuffreda, Chris Richter, Gabriela Alvarez Sánchez, Jasmine Tham and Yip-Ching Yu18 Exploring displacement from river backflows among the local Luo community in the Lake Victoria region, Kenya 368Nyandiko Nicodemus Omoyo and Juma James Omondi19 Understanding community perception of internal migration decisions following a super cyclone in a coastal district of Bangladesh 382Shamrita ZamanPART V MOBILITY, IMMOBILITY, AND NON-MIGRATION DYNAMICS20 Staying at low-income urban informal settlements despite heat stress 398Sultana Ashrafi and Bishawjit Mallick21 Environmentally induced migration of Andean Indigenous communities in times of the coronavirus pandemic 420Cecilia Louise Skarne and Bayes Ahmed22 Colonial legacies and climate adaptation in Fiji: the role of indigenous knowledge in migration decisions 440Niamh Condon and Bishawjit Mallick23 Rethinking environmental non-migration and immobility: conceptual distinctions and considerations 458Bishawjit Mallick and Marta Martínez-FabianiPART VI SLOW-ONSET HAZARDS VERSUS SUDDEN-ONSET DISASTERS24 Between extreme weather: climate change-related human (im)mobilities in the Gran Chaco Americano 480Giovanna Gini, Beatriz Felipe Pérez and Zenaida Lauda-Rodriguez25 Harmony or disarray: Italy’s environmental (im)mobility in the precautionary conundrum 496Delio Salottolo and Eleonora GuadagnoPART VII COLONIAL LEGACIES AND HISTORICAL INJUSTICES26 Locating humanitarian organisations within climate migration discourse in Syria: reframing the maximalism-minimalism divide 515Sophia MatthewsPART VIII HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE AND PROTECTION FRAMEWORKS27 Understanding and addressing disaster displacement in the context of loss and damage 531Alice Baillat and Christelle Cazabat28 Disaster displacement, trafficking in persons, and asylum in the European Union: insights from the case law 550Chiara ScissaPART IX CONFLICT, SECURITY, AND CLIMATE MOBILITY29 Climate, conflict and distance of displacement: analysing internal displacement in Sudan 565Mouad Khoubbane, Robert Beyer and Nando LewisPART X ADAPTATION STRATEGIES AND PLANNED RELOCATION30 Planned relocation in the context of climate change and disasters: conceptualising an increasingly salient form of human mobility for policy and practice 583Sarah Koeltzow and Erica Bower31 Built environment interventions framework for climate-related disaster-induced displacement 601Chathuranganee Jayakody, Anuradha C. Senanayake, Dilanthi Amaratunga, Chamindi Malalgoda and Richard HaighConclusion: Toward tethered resilience in climate (im)mobility 630Bishawjit MallickIndex 635