Migration and Climate Change

Etienne Piguet is Professor of Geography at the University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland) and nominated expert for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 5th report (working group II on the impacts, adaptation and vulnerability to climate change). He is specialized in migration and refugee studies and a member of the steering committee of the population geography commission/International Geographic Union. He is an internationally recognized expert about the links between human migration and environmental degradation. Author of several books on migration policy and immigrant minorities in Switzerland, as well as of a 2008 report on climate change and migration for the Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees. Antoine Pécoud has been with UNESCO's Section on International Migration and Multicultural Policies since 2003 and is a research associate at the Unité de Recherche Migrations et Société, University of Paris VII, and at Migrations Internationales, Espaces et Sociétés, University of Poitiers (France). He holds a BA from the University of Lausanne and a Ph.D. in social and cultural anthropology from the University of Oxford. His research has focused on migration management, immigrant entrepreneurship in Germany and the human rights implications of international migration. His co-edited books include Migration without Borders: Essays on the Free Movement of People (2007), Migration and Human Rights: The United Nations Convention on Migrant Workers' Rights (2009) and The Politics of International Migration Management (2010). Paul de Guchteneire is head of the Programme on International Migration and Multicultural Policies at UNESCO and director of the Diversities journal. He has worked as an epidemiologist at the Netherlands Cancer Research Foundation and is a past director of the Steinmetz Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and a former president of the International Federation of Data Organizations. His current research focuses on the human rights dimension of international migration and the development of policies for migration management at the international level. His publications include Democracy and Human Rights in Multicultural Societies (2007), Migration without Borders: Essays on the Free Movement of People (2007), Migration and Human Rights: The United Nations Convention on Migrant Workers' Rights (2009), as well as several works on data collection and analysis in the social sciences.

'This edited volume brings together some of the leading authors working on the relationship between climate-driven environmental change and human mobility. In so doing, it presents a comprehensive overview of a body of knowledge which, until now, has remained fragmented and debated.' James Morrissey, Journal of Refugee Studies

• 1. Introduction: migration and climate change Etienne Piguet, Antoine Pécoud and Paul de Guchteneire; Part I. Evidence on the Migration-Climate Change Relationship: 2. The main climate change forecasts that might cause human displacements Martine Rebetez; 3. Climate change, migration and health in Brazil Alisson Flávio Barbieri and Ulisses E. C. Confalonieri; 4. Environmental degradation and out-migration: evidence from Nepal Pratikshya Bohra-Mishra and Douglas S. Massey; 5. Refusing 'refugee' in the Pacific: (de)constructing climate-induced displacement in international law Jane McAdam; 6. Critical views on the relationship between climate change and migration: some insights from the experience of Bangladesh Allan Findlay and Alistair Geddes; 7. Sea level rise, local vulnerability and involuntary migration Anthony Oliver-Smith; 8. Environmental change and forced migration scenarios: methods and findings from the Nile Delta, Sahel and Meking Delta Koko Warner, Alex de Sherbinin, Charles Erhart, Susana Adamo and Tricia Chai-Onn; Part II. Policy Responses, Normative Issues and Critical Perspectives: 9. Research and policy interactions in the birth of the 'environmental migration' concept François Gemenne; 10. Lessons from past forced resettlement for climate change migration Graeme Hugo; 11. Climate change and internal displacement: challenges to the normative framework Khalid Koser; 12. Displacement, climate change and gender Lori M. Hunter and Emmanuel David; 13. Drought, desertification and migration: past experiences, predicted impacts and human rights issues Michelle Leighton; 14. The protection of 'environmental refugees' in international law Christel Cournil; 15. 'Environmental refugees': aspects of international state responsibility Astrid Epiney; 16. Concluding remarks on the climate change-migration nexus Stephen Castles.