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Introduction: Exploring Linkages Between Disaster Risk Reduction, Climate Change Adaptation, Migration and Sustainable Development

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Identifying Emerging Issues in Disaster Risk Reduction, Migration, Climate Change and Sustainable Development

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The goal of this book is to explore inter-linkages between disasters, migration, climate change and sustainable development from a number of different geographical, social and natural science angles. It is being published at a time when these topics are continuously making headlines and are subject to extensive debates and policy dialogues. The media, academia and governments are asking questions about the extent to which climate change and disasters are main drivers of migration, whether certain types of migration are causing environmental degradation and how to best facilitate human mobility that leads to positive outcomes in both the place of destination and place of origin. This book takes disaster risk reduction (DRR) as the point of departure for addressing many of the above questions and by doing so, offers a more comprehensive platform, as mobility choices are part of complex household-level livelihoods strategies to minimize risks and optimize economic, social, political gains. While not attempting to take an exhaustive, textbook approach to these topics, this book covers a myriad of aspects by authors from both South and North and from various disciplines, whether social or natural science, yet all touching upon inter-linkages between DRR, migration, climate change and sustainable development.

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  1. Faculty of Geosciences and Environment, University of Lausanne, Quartier Mouline- Batiment Géopolis, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Karen Sudmeier-Rieux, Manuela Fernández & Michel Jaboyedoff

  2. School of Environment, The University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, 1142, Auckland, New Zealand

    J. C. Gaillard

  3. Department of Operations and Emergencies, International Organization of Migration, 17, route des Morillons, 1200, Grand Saconnex, GE, Switzerland

    Lorenzo Guadagno

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Sudmeier-Rieux, K., Fernández, M., Gaillard, J.C., Guadagno, L., Jaboyedoff, M. (2017). Introduction: Exploring Linkages Between Disaster Risk Reduction, Climate Change Adaptation, Migration and Sustainable Development. In: Sudmeier-Rieux, K., Fernández, M., Penna, I., Jaboyedoff, M., Gaillard, J. (eds) Identifying Emerging Issues in Disaster Risk Reduction, Migration, Climate Change and Sustainable Development. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33880-4_1

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