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New Publication: Climate Change and Displacement

Jane McAdam has further added to the gap in climate change and migration literature with her newest opus Climate Change and Displacement: Multidisciplinary Perspectives. As her book summary outlines:...

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News: If a Country Sinks Beneath the Sea, Is It Still a Country?

(ClimateWire) August 23, 2010 – Rising ocean levels brought about by climate change have created a flood of unprecedented legal questions for small island nations and their neighbors. Among them: If a...

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News: Kiribati and Tuvalu Will Drown Without Global Climate Action

(The Ecologist) November 11, 2010 – The causes of climate change are far from their shores, but these tiny Pacific nations face growing social strife and eventual annihilation unless western...

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New Podcasts

Again, thanks to Forced Migration Current Awareness, we learned of a series of podcasts that deal with environmentally-induced migration : Stephen Castles Speaks on Climate Refugees (BBC, May 2011)...

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New Paper: Climate Change and the Risk of Statelessness: The Situation of...

Susin Park, Head, UNHCR Office for Switzerland and Liechtenstein, wrote a paper entitled “Climate Change and the Risk of Statelessness:The Situation of Low-lying Island States.” The paper begins by...

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Event: Climate-Induced Migration & Policy Responses to Climate-Induced...

Researchers’ Workshop on Climate-Induced Migration & Policy Responses to Climate-Induced Migration in Asia and the Pacific: Regional Conference Manila, Philippines, 14 – 16 September 2011 Asia and...

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Publication: On the Front Line of Climate Change and Displacement: Learning...

Pacific Island countries are internationally regarded as a barometer for the early impacts of climate change. Their geophysical characteristics, demographic patterns and location in the Pacific Ocean...

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Q&A: The Finer Points of Rising Sea Levels

(Inter Press Service) November 18, 2011 – Rousbeh Legatis interviews Mary-Elena Carr, associate director of the Columbia Climate Centre at the Earth Institute of Columbia University in New York. Long...

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News: Kiribati Mulls Fiji Land Purchase In Battle Against Sea

(BBC News) March 8, 2012 – Kiribati’s President Anote Tong is in talks to buy 23 sq km (9 sq miles) on Fiji’s Vanua Levu island. The land is wanted for crops, to settle some Kiribati farm buy cialis...

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Publication: Sea Level Rise and the Freely Associated States: Addressing...

If you’re in the mood for a highly technical, legal read, the Columbian Journal of Environmental Law published “Sea Level Rise and the Freely Associated State brand viagra online pharmacy s:...

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