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Assistance in Disasters: The Overlap between IHL and Disaster Law |
Professor Sarah Williams, University of New South Wales - March 2016 |
Sarah Williams |
21 Oct 2016 |
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Creative Commons |
FMR 49 - From the Editors |
An introductory note on FMR 49, 'Disasters and displacement in a changing climate', from the Editors. |
Marion Couldrey, Maurice Herson |
18 Jun 2015 |
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Creative Commons |
FMR 49 - Foreward |
In order to make progress on disasters, climate change and human mobility, it is essential to bring together different strands of the discussion to develop a comprehensive response that also anticipates future challenges associated with climate change. |
Børge Brende, Didier Burkhalter |
18 Jun 2015 |
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Creative Commons |
FMR 49 - The Nansen Initiative: building consensus on displacement in disaster contexts |
The Nansen Initiative consultative process has identified a toolbox of potential policy options to prevent, prepare for and respond to the challenges of cross-border displacement in disaster contexts, including the effects of climate change. |
Walter Kälin |
18 Jun 2015 |
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Creative Commons |
FMR 49 - National Adaptation Plans and human mobility |
In order to avoid displacement when possible, displacement and human mobility issues need to be better integrated within national and regional adaptation planning processes. |
Koko Warner, Walter Kälin, Susan Martin, Youssef Nassef |
18 Jun 2015 |
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Creative Commons |
FMR 49 - The state of the evidence |
Researchers have much to do, not only to understand climate- and disaster-induced migration but also to transmit their understanding for the use of policymakers and practitioners. |
Justin Ginnetti |
18 Jun 2015 |
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Creative Commons |
FMR 49 - The necessity for an ethnographic approach in Peru |
A movement of people is rarely explained by environmental or climatic factors alone. Therefore an analysis which does not take into consideration the cultural consequences of climate change for affected societies is incomplete. |
Geremia Cometti |
18 Jun 2015 |
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Creative Commons |
FMR 49 - An integrated focus |
The key to successfully addressing the challenges of environmental, climatic and natural disasters is integrating migration concerns – including displacement – into all climate change, disaster risk reduction and development policies and frameworks. |
William Lacy Swing |
18 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 49 - West Africa: a testing ground for regional solutions |
West Africa has a very mobile population and high vulnerability to natural hazards. It also, however, has a number of regional cooperation agreements and may therefore be a useful testing ground for addressing cross-border disaster displacement. |
Julia Blocher, Dalila Gharbaoui, Sara Vigil |
18 Jun 2015 |
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Creative Commons |
FMR 49 - Development and displacement risks |
The impact of climate change induces systemic patterns of socio-economic erosion that also affect the dynamics of disaster displacement and that require parallel responses. |
Glaucia Boyer, Matthew McKinnon |
18 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 49 - Developing temporary protection in Africa |
Formalised temporary protection arrangements in Africa could significantly improve access to territory and human rights for people displaced across borders by disasters. Such arrangements must adhere to states’ existing protection obligations. |
Tamara Wood |
18 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 49 - Climate effects on nomadic pastoralist societies |
Oman and Mongolia reflect the modern climatic and social challenges to mobile pastoral livelihoods. |
Dawn Chatty, Troy Sternberg |
18 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 49 - Guidance for ‘managed’ relocation |
The international community has been slow to develop climate change-specific instruments to guide the relocation process beyond those that relate to displacement generally. |
Brent Doberstein, Anne Tadgell |
18 Jun 2015 |
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Creative Commons |
FMR 49 - Preparing for planned relocation |
Preparing for planned relocation |
FMR |
18 Jun 2015 |
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Creative Commons |
FMR 49 - Lessons from planned relocation and resettlement in the past |
Placing contemporary deliberations about relocation within a longer historical and intellectual framework reveals unexpected connections and salutary lessons. |
Jane McAdam |
18 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 49 - Post-disaster resettlement in urban Bolivia |
Post-disaster resettlement programmes can be unsuitable and ineffective, often exacerbating the vulnerability of people to the effects of climate change. |
Gemma Sou |
18 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 49 - Focusing on climate-related internal displacement |
Global attention should place a primary focus on the application of best practice and the development of innovative initiatives to solve climate-related internal displacement, rather than on grappling with the far rarer movements of people across borders. |
Scott Leckie, Ezekiel Simperingham |
18 Jun 2015 |
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Creative Commons |
FMR 49 - Brazil’s draft law for environmental migrants |
Brazil is developing a long-term solution for filling a legislative gap affecting environmental migrants. |
Isabela Piacentini de Andrade |
18 Jun 2015 |
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Creative Commons |
FMR 49 - Disasters, displacement and a new framework in the Americas |
There is a startling range of positive examples of national law, policy and practice all across the Americas that states have used to respond to the migratory consequences of disasters. |
David James Cantor |
18 Jun 2015 |
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Creative Commons |
FMR 49 - Temporary protection arrangements to fill a gap in the protection regime |
Predictable measures are needed to provide protection for people displaced across borders by disasters, where there is currently a gap. |
Volker Türk |
18 Jun 2015 |
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Creative Commons |
FMR 49 - Refugees, climate change and international law |
How can the category of ‘climate refugee’ be considered within international law in the 21st century? |
María José Fernández |
18 Jun 2015 |
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Creative Commons |
FMR 49 - Displacement as a consequence of climate change mitigation policies |
Climate change mitigation policies and ‘green solutions’, such as biofuels, are also creating displacement. |
Sara Vigil |
18 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 49 - Statelessness and environmental displacement |
Stateless people and migrants are at greater risk of displacement and are less likely to receive assistance; in turn, environmental displacement (especially multiple migrations) heightens the risk of becoming stateless. |
Jessie Connell |
18 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 49 - A role for strategic litigation |
Strategic litigation to protect individuals at risk can usefully support higher-level protection initiatives. |
Matthew Scott |
18 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 49 - Floods and migration in the Czech Republic |
Residents’ strategies are generally aimed at either protection from or adaptation to flooding. Large-scale migration from the floodplains of rivers has not been seriously considered, even in high-risk zones. |
Robert Stojanov, Ilan Kelman, Barbora Duží |
18 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 49 - 'One Safe Future’ in the Philippines |
The Philippine government’s ‘One Safe Future’ programme relocated disaster-affected poor families in areas where structures enabling opportunities are lacking. |
Lloyd Ranque, Melissa Quetulio-Navarra |
18 Jun 2015 |
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Creative Commons |
FMR 49 - Cross-border migration with dignity in Kiribati |
The ‘migration with dignity’ policy is part of Kiribati’s long-term nation-wide relocation strategy. |
Karen E McNamara |
18 Jun 2015 |
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Creative Commons |
FMR 49 - Land, disasters and mobility in the South Pacific |
The adaptive characteristics of customary land systems deserve greater recognition in disaster or climate change policy frameworks. |
Daniel Fitzpatrick |
18 Jun 2015 |
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Creative Commons |
FMR 49 - Not drowning but fighting: Pacific Islands activists |
Focusing on climate-induced migration, rather than mitigation, can be at odds with grassroots demands and can make the future uninhabitability of some Pacific Islands appear as a foregone conclusion. |
Hannah Fair |
18 Jun 2015 |
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Creative Commons |
FMR 49 - Samoa: local knowledge, climate change and population movements |
The voices of scientists, academics, politicians and development practitioners dominate the climate change debate, yet local knowledge, values and beliefs are essential elements of navigating the way forward for affected communities. |
Ximena Flores-Palacios |
18 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 49 - Facilitating voluntary adaptive migration in the Pacific |
Voluntary adaptive migration across int'l borders will be a critical component of an overall adaptation strategy for at-risk individuals and households in the Pacific in order to increase their resilience to natural hazards and prevent future displicement |
Bruce Burson, Richard Bedford |
18 Jun 2015 |
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Creative Commons |
FMR 49 - Integrating resilience in South Asia |
Communities can strengthen their resilience by integrating disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation and poverty reduction measures. |
Mi Zhou, Dorien Braam |
18 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 49 - “Everyone likes it here” |
Sea-level rise threatens communities of the Lakshadweep islands. But what happens when belongingness, religious beliefs and the identity of being an islander make them stay? |
Himani Upadhyay, Ilan Kelman, Divya Mohan |
18 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 49 - Building adaptive capacity in Assam |
A starting point for adapting to longer-term climate change could be adaptation to short-term climate variability and extreme events. Making more informed choices about the use of remittances can enhance the adaptive capacity of receiving households. |
Soumyadeep Banerjee, Suman Bisht, Bidhubhusan Mahapatra |
18 Jun 2015 |
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Creative Commons |
FMR 49 - Mixed motivations and complex causality in the Mekong |
Many climate change-affected communities have already been using migration as a means to adapt to and withstand the challenges to their livelihoods and security. Strengthening of existing protections for all migrants is clearly advantageous. |
Jessica Marsh |
18 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 49 - One good reason to speak of ‘climate refugees’ |
The concept of ‘environmental refugees’, or ‘climate refugees’, has been progressively abandoned, as having no legal basis. I want to argue that there are good reasons to use the term. |
Francois Gemenne |
18 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 49 - Governance questions for the international community |
The Nansen Initiative has highlighted significant questions about how the international community should collectively think about displacement and mobility issues relating to natural disasters and climate change, and how to improve the governance thereof. |
Alexander Betts |
18 Jun 2015 |
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FMR 49 - Building respectful solutions |
Tribes in coastal Alaska and Louisiana in the United States are among the communities at immediate risk of displacement due to climate change impacts. |
Colleen Swan, Chief Albert P Naquin, Stanley Tom |
18 Jun 2015 |
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From Pictures to Policy. Reporting Famine and Other Disasters |
Professor Suzanne Franks, City University London, gives a talk for the Reuters seminar series |
Suzanne Franks |
11 Jun 2014 |
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Creative Commons |
FMR 45 Misconceptions about human trafficking in a time of crisis |
Both natural and man-made crises are considered by many to be prime environments for trafficking in persons. However, the evidence for this is thin. |
Elżbieta M Goździak, Alissa Walter |
07 Apr 2014 |
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The architecture of refugee protection |
Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture 2012. Lecture by Professor Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar (Co-Director of the Stanford Center for International Security and Cooperation)recorded on 7 November 2012 at the Oxford Museum of Natural History. |
Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar |
14 Dec 2012 |
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Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture 2009 : Beyond Blankets: in search of political deals and durable solutions for the displaced |
This podcast was recorded at the Refugee Studies Centre's Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture which was on Wednesday 18th November 2009 at the Museum of Natural History, University of Oxford. |
Jan Egeland |
27 Nov 2009 |
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Biotechnology and Biosecurity |
Lecture on Biotechnology; its applications, its implications, risks and the challenges this new technology brings. |
Ali Nouri |
17 Aug 2009 |
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Introduction to the Global Catastrophes Risk Conference 2008 |
Nick Bostrom provides an introduction to the Global Catastrophic Risks Conference and briefly addressing some of the key themes running through it. |
Nick Bostrom |
17 Aug 2009 |
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Probing the Improbable |
In this lecture, Toby Ord discusses the philosophical questions surrounding the risk of a global catastophe as well as the implications of a larger Hadron Collider. |
Toby Ord |
17 Aug 2009 |
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Expected and unexpected in the exploration of the fundamental laws of nature |
How does knowledge of the "known" allow scientists to anticipate consequences of the "unknown"? Possible outcomes of new high-energy experiments will be used to address this topic, covering both scientific and sociological aspects of the issue. |
Michelangelo Mangano |
08 Dec 2008 |
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Catastrophe, Social Collapse, and Human Extinction |
This lecture examines how, for many types of disasters, severity seems to follow a power law distribution, and how the level of resistance to such disruptions can affect the future of humanity. |
Robin Hanson |
08 Dec 2008 |
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Into the Dark: The Long Term Future of our Dying Universe |
This talk outlines astrophysical issues related to the long term fate of the cosmos. It considers the evolution of planets, stars, stellar populations, galaxies, and the universe itself over time scales that greatly exceed the current age of the universe. |
Fred Adams |
08 Dec 2008 |
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Avoiding Millennialist Cognitive Biases |
This lecture outlines a typology of the pancultural millennial phenomena, describes characteristic cognitive biases and suggests how contemporary forms of secular techno-utopian and techno-apocalyptic discourse reflect these types of millennial psychology |
James Hughes |
08 Dec 2008 |