Climate mobilities: migration, im/mobilities and mobility regimes in a changing climate

Boas, Ingrid; Wiegel, Hanne; Farbotko, Carol; Warner, Jeroen; Sheller, Mimí

doi:10.1080/1369183x.2022.2066264

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“…The term 'climate mobilities' acknowledges the multifaceted nature of human mobility in the context of a changing climate (Boas et al, 2019(Boas et al, , 2022Cundill et al, 2021). It includes different types of movements: within or across borders, permanent, temporary or circular, voluntary or involuntary, as well as the lack of capacity or willingness to move.…”

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Non-technical summary We summarize what we assess as the past year's most important findings within climate change research: limits to adaptation, vulnerability hotspots, new threats coming from the climate–health nexus, climate (im)mobility and security, sustainable practices for land use and finance, losses and damages, inclusive societal climate decisions and ways to overcome structural barriers to accelerate mitigation and limit global warming to below 2°C. Technical summary We synthesize 10 topics within climate research where there have been significant advances or emerging scientific consensus since January 2021. The selection of these insights was based on input from an international open call with broad disciplinary scope. Findings concern: (1) new aspects of soft and hard limits to adaptation; (2) the emergence of regional vulnerability hotspots from climate impacts and human vulnerability; (3) new threats on the climate–health horizon – some involving plants and animals; (4) climate (im)mobility and the need for anticipatory action; (5) security and climate; (6) sustainable land management as a prerequisite to land-based solutions; (7) sustainable finance practices in the private sector and the need for political guidance; (8) the urgent planetary imperative for addressing losses and damages; (9) inclusive societal choices for climate-resilient development and (10) how to overcome barriers to accelerate mitigation and limit global warming to below 2°C. Social media summary Science has evidence on barriers to mitigation and how to overcome them to avoid limits to adaptation across multiple fields.

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“…A third, new line of research has emerged from the 2010s onwards that highlights the existence of a certain "multiplicity of mobility" in connection with climate change Boas et al, 2022;Baldwin et al, 2019;Boas et al, 2019;Parsons, 2019;Suliman et al, 2019;Cundill et al, 2021). Accordingly, there are "multiplicities of climate mobilities" (Boas et al, 2022), meaning human mobility under climate change can take many forms since it is context dependent and shaped "by existing relations of power and inequality" (ibid.). Within this line of research "mobility justice" (Sheller, 2018) emerges as a relevant notion to grasp climate mobilities as it sheds light on "how power and inequality inform the governance and control of movement, shaping the patterns of unequal mobility and immobility in the circulation of people, resources and information" (ibid.…”

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Dayanıklılık Kavramına Alternatif olarak Çevresel Adalet: Hindistan Örneği

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2022

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The notion of resilience is being increasingly used, without much criticism, in various areas of the development debate, involving climate migration. Nevertheless, the concept incorporates several weaknesses which are often ignored: it is a vague and non-transparent concept with shifting meanings, transfers the risk and responsibility of adaptation from the state onto the shoulders of individuals, and duplicates existing injustices. Thus, it promotes the continuation of the status quo and overlooks the structural causes of socio-economic and environmental problems. This paper argues that resilience is a limited framework to deal with environmental harms and that environmental degradation should be dealt with in a framework of environmental justice because it provides a more comprehensive and just socio-ecological lens for the critical assessment and solution of environmental problems. The paper studies the phenomenon of climate migration in India and investigates why an environmental justice framework should be employed for analyzing and proposing solutions to environmental damage instead of resilience.

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“…The Report focused in particular on the concept of 'trapped populations' , those not mobile whilst facing growing vulnerability (Foresight, 2011, p. 25), noting that this group would need at least as much policy attention as their mobile counterparts. Immobility has since gained some traction in academic and applied debates concerning climate (im)mobility (e.g., Black et al, 2013;Baldwin et al, 2019;Farbotko and McMichael, 2019;Farbotko et al, 2020;Cundill et al, 2021;Zickgraf, 2021;Boas et al, 2022).…”

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Trapped or staying put: Governing immobility in the context of climate change

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2023

Front. Clim.

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By presenting a range of outcomes which result from the impacts of a changing environment on human mobility patterns, the Foresight Report on Migration and Global Environmental Change emphasized that, whereas some people choose to stay in a specific location, others are simply unable to leave, leading to what the report termed “trapped populations”. Much understanding about both voluntary and involuntary immobility in the context of environmental or climatic change has been gained since. The IPCC's recent report on climate change impacts, vulnerabilities and adaptation further underlined that, in the decades ahead, some people will be unable or unwilling to move away from locations in which they may nevertheless be vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. What has received less attention is how climate immobility ought to be governed and which norms should underpin its governance. In this paper, we rely on select existing law and policy instruments and frameworks from Latin American and the Pacific Islands regions to outline key considerations of a governance structure suitable for (in)voluntary immobility. This will inform individuals, communities, and policy makers who seek to navigate through complex reasons and decisions for “staying put” or “getting stuck” in the face of climatic change. The analysis builds upon a review of published literature and, especially, existing policy and legal frameworks at national and regional levels. We argue that a more widespread, timely and proactive approach to policy and governance is required in support of resilience in the context of climate immobility.

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Climate mobilities: migration, im/mobilities and mobility regimes in a changing climate

Cited by 57 publications

References 63 publications

Ten new insights in climate science 2022

Ten new insights in climate science 2022

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Trapped or staying put: Governing immobility in the context of climate change

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