Migration, Risk Management and Climate Change: Evidence and Policy Responses

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Mountain Areas

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. An Index Based Assessment of Vulnerability to Floods in the Upper Indus Sub-Basin: What Role for Remittances?

      • Soumyadeep Banerjee, Muhammad Zubair Anwar, Giovanna Gioli, Suman Bisht, Saleem Abid, Nusrat Habib et al.

      Pages 3-23

   3. Role of Remittances in Building Farm Assets in the Flood Affected Households in Koshi Sub-Basin in Nepal

      • Soumyadeep Banerjee, Bandita Sijapati, Meena Poudel, Suman Bisht, Dominic Kniveton

      Pages 25-41

   4. Migration as a Risk Management Strategy in the Context of Climate Change: Evidence from the Bolivian Andes

      • Regine Brandt, Raoul Kaenzig, Susanne Lachmuth

      Pages 43-61

   5. Circular Migration and Local Adaptation in the Mountainous Community of Las Palomas (Mexico)

      • Noemi Cascone, Ana Elisa Peña del Valle Isla, Andrea Milan

      Pages 63-83

3. Low-Lying Areas

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 85-85

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   2. Household Adaptation Strategies to Climate Extremes Impacts and Population Dynamics: Case Study from the Czech Republic

      • Robert Stojanov, Barbora Duží, Ilan Kelman, Daniel Němec, David Procházka

      Pages 87-103

   3. Moving Beyond the Focus on Environmental Migration Towards Recognizing the Normality of Translocal Lives: Insights from Bangladesh

      • Benjamin Etzold, Bishawjit Mallick

      Pages 105-128

4. Small Islands

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 129-129

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   2. Good Fishing in Rising Seas: Kandholhudhoo, Dhuvaafaru, and the Need for a Development-Based Migration Policy in the Maldives

      • Andrea C. Simonelli

      Pages 131-148

   3. The Reason Land Matters: Relocation as Adaptation to Climate Change in Fiji Islands

      • Dalila Gharbaoui, Julia Blocher

      Pages 149-173

   4. The Role of Remittances in Risk Management and Resilience in Tuvalu: Evidence and Potential Policy Responses

      • Sophia Kagan

      Pages 175-191

5. Policy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 193-193

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   2. Remittances for Adaptation: An ‘Alternative Source’ of International Climate Finance?

      • Barbara Bendandi, Pieter Pauw

      Pages 195-211

   3. Conclusion: Migration as Adaptation: Conceptual Origins, Recent Developments, and Future Directions

      • Robert McLeman

      Pages 213-229

This edited volume explores the circumstances under which vulnerable communities can better adapt to climate and environmental change, and focuses in particular on the centrality of migration as a resilience and adaptation strategy for communities at risk. The book features important case studies where migration is being used as a risk management strategy in the Pacific, Sub-Sahara Africa, Latin America, and Europe. Its comparative analysis reveals common patterns in enhancing local resilience through migration across diverse regional, socio-economic, cultural, and political contexts. This book is a contribution to the global discussion about the future of migration policy, especially as climate and environmental change is expected to grow as one of the most pressing challenges of our time.

• Climate Change
• Human Migration
• Human national and international security
• Human welfare and development
• Living and Working conditions
• Risk management
• Environmental Geography

• Inst for Environm & Human Security, United Nations University, Bonn, Germany

  Andrea Milan

• German Development Institute, Bonn, Germany

  Benjamin Schraven

• Inst for Environment & Human Security, United Nations University, Bonn, Germany

  Koko Warner

• Inst for Environmental & Human Security, United Nations University Inst for Environmental & Human Security, Bonn, Germany

  Noemi Cascone

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