Toward a climate mobilities research agenda: Intersectionality, immobility, and policy responses

Cundill, Georgina, Singh, Chandni, Adger, William Neil, Safra De Campos, Ricardo, Vincent, Katharine, Tebboth, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1193-8080 and Maharjan, Amina (2021) Toward a climate mobilities research agenda: Intersectionality, immobility, and policy responses. Global Environmental Change, 69. ISSN 0959-3780

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Abstract

Mobility is a key livelihood and risk management strategy, including in the context of climate change. The COVID-19 pandemic has reinforced long standing concerns that migrant populations remain largely overlooked in economic development, adaptation to climate change, and spatial planning. We synthesize evidence across multiple studies that confirms the overwhelming preponderance of in-country and short distance rather than international migration in climate change hotspots in Asia and Africa. The emerging findings highlight the critical importance of addressing immobility and the intersecting social determinants that influence who can move and who cannot in development policy. This evidence suggests a more focused climate mobilities research agenda that includes understanding multiple drivers of mobility and multi-directional movement; intersecting social factors that determine mobility for some and immobility for others; and the implications for mobility and immobility under climate change and the COVID-19 recovery.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: climate change,gender,immobility,migration,mobility,global and planetary change,geography, planning and development,ecology,management, monitoring, policy and law,sdg 8 - decent work and economic growth,sdg 13 - climate action ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2300/2306
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Social Sciences > School of International Development
University of East Anglia Research Groups/Centres > Theme - ClimateUEA
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Date Deposited: 22 Jul 2021 00:07
Last Modified: 23 Oct 2022 02:44
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/80686
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2021.102315

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