Human adaptation: Manage climate-induced resettlement

López‐Carr, David; Marter-Kenyon, Jessica

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“…Whether or not these normative ideals can be achieved is debatable; their development and promotion is important nonetheless. Furthermore, “urgent” discourses have usefully drawn attention to the severity of climate threats, the importance of achieving global emissions reductions to avoid climate displacement (Arnall and Kothari, 2015; Lopez-Carr and Marter-Kenyon, 2015), and the practical need to address the thorny ethical and governance questions presented by the very concept of adaptive relocation (Johnson, 2012).…”

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“…Climate change is expected to provoke the planned, state-led relocation of millions of people this century (Ferris, 2015). International agencies including the United Nations (UNEP, 2011; United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), 2017) and the Asian Development Bank (Lei et al, 2017) have endorsed relocation in response to climate change, and dozens of countries are already deeply engaged in climate-related relocation (CRR) discourse and practice (Lopez-Carr and Marter-Kenyon, 2015; McDowell, 2013).…”

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“…Although CRR is an elevated issue within global discourse (Arnall, 2018), debates rely on insufficient evidence. CRR is under-researched, especially in comparison with the attention paid to other forms of climate-related population movement, that is, migration and displacement (Ferris, 2015; Lopez-Carr and Marter-Kenyon, 2015; Rogers and Xue, 2015). Furthermore, no systematic analytical synthesis of the existing scholarship on CRR has yet been published, nor the conceptual frameworks and underlying assumptions of this research comprehensively assessed.…”

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Origins and functions of climate-related relocation: An analytical review

Marter-Kenyon

2020

The Anthropocene Review

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Planned, state-led population relocation is advanced as an adaptation to climate change. Concerned that climate hazards will threaten settlement viability and provoke widespread, unplanned migration, global discourse overwhelmingly characterizes relocation as a voluntary, “last resort” effort to resettle and rebuild communities in safer areas. Over the past decade, scholars have investigated where and why climate-related relocation materializes and how it functions as an adaptation (or otherwise). This article systematically reviews the scientific literature, concluding that climate-related relocation is a more diverse and complex process than recognized within dominant research efforts and policy narratives. While climate-related relocation is sometimes a function of environmental migration pressures and adaptation imperatives, recent critical scholarship shows that climate-related relocation processes are embedded in historical responses to environment and development problems and unfold through political negotiation, discourse, and the social construction of risk and response. In practice, “adaptive relocation” frequently involves population redistribution (villagization and sedentarization) as well as resettlement, is often proactive and involuntary, and risks (re)producing maladaptive outcomes. Based on this analysis, I argue for an expanded research and policy agenda centered around a pluralistic conceptual framework that respects the diversity of relocation efforts undertaken as adaptation.

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Origins and functions of climate-related relocation: An analytical review

Marter-Kenyon

2020

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“…Certainly, there are increasing calls for relocation planning to closely involve the people affected (Lopez‐Carr and Marter‐Kenyon, ; Gharbaoui and Blocher, ). Gharbaoui and Blocher () argue that planned relocation must be conducted with the informed consent of a target community and with planning support by government and/or international development partners.…”

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Voluntary immobility and existential security in a changing climate in the Pacific

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2019

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With the expectation of adverse climate change impacts, some (often majority) Indigenous populations of the Pacific are expressing a preference to remain on Indigenous lands for cultural and spiritual reasons. In some cases, Indigenous people express preparedness to die on traditional territory rather than relocate, representing a new type of agency and resistance to dispossession. This is a prominent politics of place of relevance to emerging debates and decision-making around retreat and relocation. If climate change is experienced by populations as an existential threat to culture, identity and place-based connections, voluntary immobility can be an important adaptation strategy that helps to strengthen cultural and spiritual resilience among those facing the prospect of a lost homeland. This paper argues that voluntary immobility decisions need ethically robust and culturally appropriate policies and practices, particularly when a site is deemed by external experts to be no longer fit for human settlement. National governments, civil society groups, international organisations and donors will need to: engage in culturally meaningful dialogue with communities about relocation and immobility; respect, protect and fulfil the rights of 'immobile' people and those on the move; and confirm that in situ adaptation options have been exhausted.

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“…However, most residents actually do not intend to migrate, despite rigid eco-environmental conditions and governance polices threatening livelihood-sustainability [27], therefore, both horizontal and vertical interactions, as well as the dynamics between migrants and their resettlements should be illustrated, based on disciplinary approaches by taking China as a study case. We may draw lessons from China's practices regarding ecological-migration and then adapt these experiences to develop a better management approach on international climate-induced resettlement [28].…”

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Sustainability in China: Bridging Global Knowledge with Local Action

2015

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Abstract:As the biggest emerging and developing country, and the second largest economy on the planet, China's road to sustainability has attracted global attention; therefore, we need to have a deeper understanding to address this issue at very different levels. This editorial mainly reviews the contributions of the published papers in the Special Issue of "Sustainability in China: Bridging Global Knowledge with Local Action", the main findings in this special edition suggest that the concept of sustainability is more comprehensive and complex, and the transformation process from scientific knowledge to local action still has a long way to go, not only in China, but also in many developing countries. More research on the fundamental and innovative processes of sustainable transformations should be conducted. China needs to make more efforts to strengthen its road to sustainability, by merging all relevant types of knowledge, both within and outside science, as well as locally and globally.

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Human adaptation: Manage climate-induced resettlement

Cited by 39 publications

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Origins and functions of climate-related relocation: An analytical review

Origins and functions of climate-related relocation: An analytical review

Voluntary immobility and existential security in a changing climate in the Pacific

Sustainability in China: Bridging Global Knowledge with Local Action

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