Why climate migration is not managed retreat: Six justifications

Ajibade, Idowu; Sullivan, Meghan E.; Haeffner, Melissa

doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2020.102187

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“…Dundon & Abkowitz [43] in their review paper also discuss at length the terminology issue, suggesting a range of different terms including their preference for ‘transformative adaptation’ so as to better encompass the positive aspects of retreat. Ajibade et al [63] provide a comprehensive analysis of the differences between climate migration and managed retreat, noting that these are not synonymous terms (contra [64], who tag their paper as managed retreat, but predominately analyse climate migration presenting a tripartite typology: places that lose people, places that receive people and places that are optimal destinations). Ajibade [53] also provides a detailed analysis of the legal, political, economic and cultural aspects of retreat, which are also strong reasons as to why we need to be clear about what we mean in relevant terminology.…”

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Managed retreat and planned retreat: a systematic literature review

O’Donnell

2022

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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Vulnerable locations, such as coastlines, are at a high risk of loss and damage. Such places will suffer deleterious impacts as climate change impacts are increasingly realized. As societies try to adapt to these impacts, managed or planned retreat—aimed at moving people and assets away from vulnerable locations—is gaining increased attention. Despite this increased attention, systematic literature reviews of the retreat literature remain scarce. This paper undertakes such review and uncovers a marked increase in retreat scholarly research papers in the past 5 years. An analysis of 135 managed and planned retreat journal articles is completed. Findings include a strong emphasis on regional or local case studies exploring governance, policy or institutional settings and levers across a range of geographies. Property rights and market interventions, such as compensation schemes, evidence the prevalence of neoliberal predilections. This emphasizes the importance of renewed engagement with political economy scholarship vis-à-vis climate change adaptation, also supported by the sharp increase in the evidenced social and environmental justice impacts. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Nurturing resilient marine ecosystems’.

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Managed retreat and planned retreat: a systematic literature review

O’Donnell

2022

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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“…In relation to the migratory effect caused by climate change, since 2016 there has been an increase in the number of articles that use the term climate justice, defined as the imperative need to include the environmental dimension in all decision-making (regardless of the corresponding discipline), with a legal framework that allows action to be taken in the event that this dimension is not taken into consideration [ 6 ]. In the scientific literature, there are several works that relate climate justice to climate change-induced migration, such as the research by Ajibade et al [ 3 ], who emphasise the importance of differentiating climate migration from managed retreat to enhance climate justice, or the study by Ahmed [ 2 ] focused on identifying the responsibility of climate refugees.…”

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Climate change-induced migration: a bibliometric review

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Background This paper has reviewed the international research on the terms “climate change” and “human migration” from 1999 to 2019. To this end, a bibliometric and a cluster analysis by fractional accounting have been carried out using two of the most important databases: Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus. The research found and studied 140 documents from WoS Core Collection and 193 from Scopus. Results The results show a continual increase in the number of articles published and citations received during the whole period studied. The U.S., U.K., Germany and China have been shown to be the most productive countries and there is a predominance of North American organizations supporting and fostering research on these topics. Conclusions The main contribution of this article is the analysis of new tendencies. The trend shows a transition from concepts such as vulnerability, climate change, land degradation, refugees and security to others such as concepts such as international migration, climate justice, sustainability, human rights and disaster risk reduction. Future research in this field should address the comparison of results from research focused on human beings to a focus on other living beings.

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“…In contrast to retreating, accommodating focuses on utilizing topography and water channeling efforts to manage the rising sea around an urban area. This approach focuses on considering options such as canals and raised structures to coexist with the rising sea level [34][35][36]. The argument for this approach being those examples such as Venice and Amsterdam which have demonstrated over centuries that accommodation can be effective given the planning and strategic management of the solution.…”

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Protecting Infrastructure and Public Buildings against Sea Level Rise and Storm Surge

Chinowsky

Helman

2021

Sustainability

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The national study analyzes sea level rise (SLR) impacts based on 36 different SLR and storm surge scenarios across 5.7 million geographic locations and 3 time periods. Taking an approach based on engineering design guidelines and current cost estimates, the study details projected cost impacts for states and cities. These impacts are presented from multiple perspectives, including total cost for constructing seawalls, costs per capita, and costs per square kilometer. The purpose of the study is to identify specific locations where infrastructure is vulnerable to rising sea levels. The study finds that Sea Level Rise (SLR) and minimal storm surge is a USD 400 billion threat to the coastline of the lower 48 United States by 2040 that includes a need for at least 80,000 km of protective barriers. The research is limited in its scope to protecting coastal infrastructure with seawalls to enable consistency throughout the study. The study is original in that it is an effort across the lower 48 states to identify infrastructure that is vulnerable, as well as the cost associated with protecting this infrastructure.

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Why climate migration is not managed retreat: Six justifications

Cited by 46 publications

References 77 publications

Managed retreat and planned retreat: a systematic literature review

Managed retreat and planned retreat: a systematic literature review

Climate change-induced migration: a bibliometric review

Protecting Infrastructure and Public Buildings against Sea Level Rise and Storm Surge

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