Is climate-driven migration a threat to security?

The need to understand how migration, climate and (in)security interact is becoming increasingly urgent. Climate change will continue to impact human security in the short- to medium-term, with potentially important consequences for human mobility. Over the past decade, for instance, weather-relate...

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Autores principales: Läderach, Peter R.D., Pacillo, Grazia, Schapendonk, Frans, Savelli, Adam
Formato: Brief
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: CGIAR FOCUS Climate Security 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/115178
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author Läderach, Peter R.D.
Pacillo, Grazia
Schapendonk, Frans
Savelli, Adam
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Pacillo, Grazia
Savelli, Adam
Schapendonk, Frans
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description The need to understand how migration, climate and (in)security interact is becoming increasingly urgent. Climate change will continue to impact human security in the short- to medium-term, with potentially important consequences for human mobility. Over the past decade, for instance, weather-related events displaced 21.5 million people each year, more than twice as many as displacements caused by conflict and violence (UNHCR, 2021). While we must be careful not to over-securitise discourse around migration, ignoring the potential implications of these trends for both human and national security would be equally irresponsible. To give one example, research shows that for every 100,000 people displaced by floods, the probability of conflict incidence rises by approximately 3% (Ghimire, Ferreira and Dorfman, 2015). Given that flooding drove 10 million people globally from their homes in 2019, and 51% of all disaster-induced displacements between 2008 and 2018 were flood-induced, this threat is far from marginal (IDMC, 2019; IDMC, 2020).
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spelling CGSpace1151782025-11-05T12:35:41Z Is climate-driven migration a threat to security? Läderach, Peter R.D. Pacillo, Grazia Schapendonk, Frans Savelli, Adam agriculture food security climate change migration environmental degradation The need to understand how migration, climate and (in)security interact is becoming increasingly urgent. Climate change will continue to impact human security in the short- to medium-term, with potentially important consequences for human mobility. Over the past decade, for instance, weather-related events displaced 21.5 million people each year, more than twice as many as displacements caused by conflict and violence (UNHCR, 2021). While we must be careful not to over-securitise discourse around migration, ignoring the potential implications of these trends for both human and national security would be equally irresponsible. To give one example, research shows that for every 100,000 people displaced by floods, the probability of conflict incidence rises by approximately 3% (Ghimire, Ferreira and Dorfman, 2015). Given that flooding drove 10 million people globally from their homes in 2019, and 51% of all disaster-induced displacements between 2008 and 2018 were flood-induced, this threat is far from marginal (IDMC, 2019; IDMC, 2020). 2021-09-27 2021-09-27T13:46:58Z 2021-09-27T13:46:58Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/115178 en Open Access application/pdf CGIAR FOCUS Climate Security Läderach P, Pacillo G, Schapendonk F, Savelli A. 2021. Is climate induced migration a threat to national security?. Rome Italy: CGIAR FOCUS Climate Security.
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environmental degradation
Läderach, Peter R.D.
Pacillo, Grazia
Schapendonk, Frans
Savelli, Adam
Is climate-driven migration a threat to security?
title Is climate-driven migration a threat to security?
title_full Is climate-driven migration a threat to security?
title_fullStr Is climate-driven migration a threat to security?
title_full_unstemmed Is climate-driven migration a threat to security?
title_short Is climate-driven migration a threat to security?
title_sort is climate driven migration a threat to security
topic agriculture
food security
climate change
migration
environmental degradation
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