Global Views on Climate Relocation and Social Justice: Navigating Retreat

ISBN-13: 9780367693480 / Angielski

Idowu Jola Ajibade; A. R. Siders

Opis

This edited volume advances our understanding of climate relocation (or planned retreat), an emerging topic in the fields of climate adaptation and hazard risk, and provides a platform for alternative voices and views on the subject.

As the effects of climate change become more severe and widespread, there is a growing conversation about when, where and how people will move. Climate relocation is a controversial adaptation strategy, yet the process can also offer opportunity and hope. This collection grapples with the environmental and social justice dimensions from multiple perspectives, with cases drawn from Africa, Asia, Australia, Oceania, South America, and North America. The contributions throughout present unique perspectives, including community organizations, adaptation practitioners, geographers, lawyers, and landscape architects, reflecting on the potential harms and opportunities of climate-induced relocation. Works of art, photos, and quotes from flood survivors are also included, placed between sections to remind the reader of the human element in the adaptation debate. Blending art – photography, poetry, sculpture – with practical reflections and scholarly analyses, this volume provides new insights on a debate that touches us all: how we will live in the future and where?

Challenging readers’ pre-conceptions about planned retreat by juxtaposing different disciplines, lenses and media, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate change, environmental migration and displacement, and environmental justice and equity.

The Open Access version of chapter 1, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003141457, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

 

Spis treści

1. Navigating retreat: Global views on climate relocation and social justice Part 1. Definitions and legal landscapes 2. Rethinking process and reframing language for climate-induced relocation 3. The role of international governance to reduce maladaptive climate relocation 4. Charting a justice-based approach to planned climate relocation for the world’s refugees Part 2. Shifting lands, resistance and acceptance 5. Breaking the borderscape: Migration, resettlement, and citizenship on the Anthropocene Brahmaputra 6. Losing ground: Rethinking land loss in the context of managed retreat 7. Resistance, acceptance and misalignment of goals in climate-related resettlement in Malawi 8.Land is Life: A poem of the Philippines Lumad Part 3. Navigating transitions 9. Moving to higher ground: Planning for relocation as an adaptation strategy to climate change in the Fiji Islands 10. Voices of Arraigo: Redefining relocation for landslide-affected communities in the informal settlements of Bogota, Colombia 11. The climate crisis is a housing crisis: Without growth we cannot retreat 12. Voices of Ghoramora Island, India: The case for planned relocation 13. The need for a resettlement pathway for Guyana’s vulnerable coastal communities 14. Mobile livelihoods and adaptive social protection: Can migrant workers foster resilience to climate change? 15. Identity and power: How cultural values inform decision-making in climate-based relocation Part 4. Finding hope 16. Voices of Enseada da Baleia: Emotions and feelings in a preventive and self-managed relocation 17. Hope, community, and creating a future in the face of disaster Part 5. Future directions 18. Retreating from the waves 19. Climate-induced relocation as a third wave of response to climate change 20. Waves of grief and anger: Communicating through the "End of the World" as we knew it

O autorze

Idowu Jola Ajibade is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography at Portland State University.

A.R. Siders is an assistant professor in the Disaster Research Center, Biden School of Public Policy and Administration, and Department of Geography and Spatial Sciences at the University of Delaware.