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Climate Change, Population Movements and Governance: Case Studies in Response Mechanisms

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The impacts and implications of anthropogenic climate change on ecosystems, bio-diversity and human populations are shaping political and policy discourses around the world. The challenges of mitigation and adaptation have generated urgent public debates about the most effective, secure and socio-culturally sensitive ways of reducing the threat of human-induced climate change and responding to its immediate and anticipated consequences. One of the gravest threats to humankind lies in the impact of climate change on human settlements and the potential for radically altered climatic conditions to lead to large-scale population movements, border disputes, resource wars and spatial/territorial conflicts within and between regions and nation states (Evans 2010: 5–7). Equally important are issues related to national sovereignty, identity and self-determination, all of which are being considered in a fluid and unpredictable context because of the uncertainties associated with the precise nature, scale and pace of altered climatic conditions.

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Hil, R. (2013). Climate Change, Population Movements and Governance: Case Studies in Response Mechanisms. In: Cadman, T. (eds) Climate Change and Global Policy Regimes. International Political Economy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137006127_13

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