Who defines atoll 'uninhabitability'?

C Farbotko, J Campbell - Environmental Science & Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper argues that the concept of 'uninhabitability'in the context of sea level rise risk is
culturally and socially experienced and open to multiple truth claims, with implications for …

A future agenda for research on climate change and human mobility

R Oakes, K Van der Geest, B Schraven… - International …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In the past 15 years, research activities focusing on the interlinkages between climate
change and human mobility have intensified. At the same time, an increasing number of …

Climate change, ecosystem services and migration in the Marshall Islands: are they related?

K van der Geest, M Burkett, J Fitzpatrick, M Stege… - Climatic Change, 2020 - Springer
As one of the lowest-lying island nation states in the world, the Republic of the Marshall
Islands is vulnerable to sea level rise, flooding and the associated impacts on soil and water …

Contingent communality and community-based adaptation to climate change: Insights from a Pacific rural atoll

S Jarillo, J Barnett - Journal of Rural Studies, 2021 - Elsevier
Research shows that community-based adaptation (CBA) can empower grassroots agents
to determine their preferred responses to climate change. After two decades of practice …

[PDF][PDF] 9 Human mobility and adaptation to environmental change

R Oakes, S Banerjee, K Warner - World migration report, 2020 - publications.iom.int
Millions of men, women and children around the world move in anticipation or as a response
to environmental stress every year. Disruptions such as cyclones, floods and wildfires …

Compelled and constrained migration: restrictions to migration agency in the Marshall Islands

HB Roland - Frontiers in climate, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Migration as adaptation implies agency, yet environmental and non-environmental factors
and their interactions may limit the availability of adaptation options, including migration …

Rainbows of Comfort in Rising Seas: How Literalist Bible Interpretations Impact Climate Change Communication in the Marshall Islands

AC Simonelli, K Novalski - Weather, Climate, and Society, 2023 - journals.ametsoc.org
Abstract The Republic of the Marshall Islands is beginning to feel the impacts of climate
change. Its geography and low-lying landscape have put it at a disadvantage to fight the …

Framing Migration as Adaptation: IOM's Aspirations to Manage Climate Migration

S Schriever - Geopolitics, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
At the 2010 UNFCCC Conference in Cancún, migration as a consequence of climate
change entered the Cancún Adaptation Framework. It did so in a specific way, being framed …

[PDF][PDF] Addressing the impacts of climate change through an effective Warsaw International Mechanism on Loss and Damage

R Byrnes, S Surminski - London: London School of Economics Grantham …, 2019 - lse.ac.uk
The rise in global temperature as a result of climate change is increasing the frequency,
severity and unpredictability of events such as heatwaves, floods, droughts and tropical …

Family and Community Obligations Motivate People to Immigrate—A Case Study from the Republic of the Marshall Islands

R Fujikura, M Nakayama, D Sasaki, I Taafaki… - International journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
A questionnaire survey was conducted in the Marshall Islands among 308 citizens of Majuro
in order to analyze the factors that led them to immigrate. Using the results from the …