Handbook on climate mobility / edited by Bayes Ahmed (associate professor in risk and disaster science, Department of Risk and Disaster Reduction, University College London, UK) and Bishawjit Mallick (associate professor of climate change and international development studies, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, the Netherlands).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ahmed, Bayes, editor.

Mallick, Bishawjit, editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Climatic changes.

Climate change adaptation--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Climate change adaptation.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (672 pages)

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2026.

Summary:

"This insightful Handbook explores the pervasive effects of climate change on homes across the globe, examining the difficult choice between staying in increasingly uninhabitable places, or relocating and seeking refuge elsewhere. Leading international scholars investigate the motivations and deterrents of climate migration, outlining how governments and communities can respond more effectively. As extreme weather events, rising sea levels, and long-term environmental changes intensify, the Handbook sheds light on the urgent need for fair policies, stronger international support and recognition of those already affected. It calls for key changes to advance climate justice, including strengthening legal protections, establishing clear definitions for terms such as 'climate migrant' and 'climate refugee', and increased funding to support vulnerable populations in resettling or adapting with dignity. Contributing authors from diverse disciplines address climate mobility case studies from Africa, Latin America, the Pacific Islands, and South Asia, providing actionable guidance for adaptation strategies. This Handbook is a vital resource for scholars and students of environmental studies, migration and refugee studies, and international law. Policymakers and humanitarian practitioners working on disaster risk reduction and international protection frameworks will also find the Handbook beneficial"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents: Foreword

Andrew harper

Preface and acknowledgements / Bayes Ahmed and Bishawjit Mallick

Introduction: Towards a just and inclusive framework for climate (im)mobility / Bayes Ahmed and Bishawjit Mallick

Part I: Conceptual and theoretical advancements

1. Towards an evidence-based action agenda on the climate-(im)mobility (un)nexus(es) / Ilan Kelman and Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson

2. Climate refugees or disaster displaced persons: Common terminology to enhance policy coherence / Timo Schmidt and Sarah Koeltzow

3. The climate mobilities approach, its theoretical basis and methodological implications / Hanne Wiegel, Ingrid Boas and Carol Farbotko

4. Rethinking dominant narratives on climate mobilities: A cosmopolitan approach beyond binaries, exclusion, securitisation, and depoliticisation / Irene Sacchetti, Natalia Chirinos Arévalo and Dinushika Yapa Abeywardhana

Part II: Vulnerability, gender, and social dimensions

5. Advancing policy avenues for addressing vulnerabilities by gender in climate change migration and displacement / Francesca Rosignoli

6. Gender in climate (im)mobility governance: Insights from peru and chile / Hanne Wiegel and Astrid Carolayn Morales Villalobos

7. Gendered dimensions of climate mobilities in the northern bolivian altiplano / Ximena Flores-Palacios and Cloe Barbera

8. From livelihoods to empowerment: What else matters for women during climate mobility in the global south? / Azreen Karim

Part III: Policy, governance, and institutional frameworks

9. Governing the climate-mobility nexus: Frameworks, institutions, and perspectives / Benjamin Schraven

10. Embarking of unhcr on climate mobility: De facto or de jure expansion of international refugee law regime? / K. M. S. Tareq

11. Legal protection for climate migrants: A canadian perspective / Rachel Bryce

12. Modelling climate mobility responses to policy decisions in vulnerable coastal areas: A case study from thiruvananthapuram, India / Aysha Jennath and Saikat Paul

13. Bridging policy gaps in the climate change, human mobility, and security nexus in guatemala: From scientific evidence to policy integration / Ignacio Madurga-Lopez, Julian Higuera-Florez, Cesare Scartozzi and Frans Schapendonk

14. Climate change and human mobility challenges in pakistan: A policy perspective / Saeed A. Khan and Atle Solberg

Part IV: Methodological innovations and empirical studies

15. Collecting data on human mobility due to climate and environmental change: An overview of the displacement tracking matrix / Nando Lewis, Elizabeth Griesmer and Sokhna Sy

16. Rapid rise of slow-onset hazards: Unpacking methodological caveats to monitoring displacements with case studies from asia and the pacific / Thannaletchimy Housset and Ryan Mitra

17. Towards a comprehensive approach to climate mobility in asia and the pacific / Lorena Ciuffreda, Chris Richter, Gabriela Alvarez Sánchez, Jasmine Tham and Yip-Ching Yu

18. Exploring displacement from river backflows among the local luo community in the lake victoria region, Kenya / Nyandiko Nicodemus Omoyo and Juma James Omondi

19. Understanding community perception of internal migration decisions following a super cyclone in a coastal district of Bangladesh / Shamrita Zaman

Part V: Mobility, immobility, and non-migration dynamics

20. Staying at low-income urban informal settlements despite heat stress / Sultana Ashrafi and Bishawjit Mallick

21. Environmentally induced migration of andean indigenous communities in times of the coronavirus pandemic / Cecilia Louise Skarne and Bayes Ahmed

22. Colonial legacies and climate adaptation in fiji: The role of indigenous knowledge in migration decisions / Niamh Condon and Bishawjit Mallick

23. Rethinking environmental non-migration and immobility: Conceptual distinctions and considerations / Bishawjit Mallick and Marta Martínez-Fabiani

Part VI: Slow-onset hazards versus sudden-onset disasters

24. Between extreme weather: Climate change-related human (im)mobilities in the gran chaco Americano / Giovanna Gini, Beatriz Felipe Pérez and Zenaida Lauda-Rodriguez

25. Harmony or disarray: Italy's environmental (im)mobility in the precautionary conundrum / Delio Salottolo and Eleonora Guadagno

Part VII: Colonial legacies and historical injustices

26. Locating humanitarian organisations within climate migration discourse in Syria: Reframing the maximalism-minimalism divide / Sophia Matthews

Part VIIi: Humanitarian response and protection frameworks

27. Understanding and addressing disaster displacement in the context of loss and damage / Alice Baillat and Christelle Cazabat

28. Disaster displacement, trafficking in persons, and asylum in the European Union: Insights from the case law / Chiara Scissa

Part IX: Conflict, security, and climate mobility

29. Climate, conflict and distance of displacement: Analysing internal displacement in sudan / Mouad Khoubbane, Robert Beyer and Nando Lewis

Part X: Adaptation strategies and planned relocation

30. Planned relocation in the context of climate change and disasters: Conceptualising an increasingly salient form of human mobility for policy and practice / Sarah Koeltzow and Erica Bower

31. Built environment interventions framework for climate-related disaster-induced displacement / Chathuranganee Jayakody, Anuradha C. Senanayake, Dilanthi Amaratunga, Chamindi Malalgoda and Richard Haigh

Conclusion: Toward tethered resilience in climate (im)mobility / Bishawjit Mallick

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781035329939 (e-book)

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