Global views on climate relocation and social justice : : navigating retreat / / edited by Idowu Jola Ajibade, A.R. Siders.

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 widesprea...

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Place / Publishing House:London : : Routledge,, 2021.
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (324 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.