This paper provides an overview of what is actually known about the relationship between climate change and human mobility in West, East and Southern Africa - the most affected regions of Sub-Saharan Africa. Although there is a general lack of data on "climate migration", trends can be deduced...

Dieses Papier gibt einen Überblick über den Zusammenhang zwischen den Folgen des Klimawandels und menschlicher Mobilität in West-, Ost- und im südlichen Afrika, den von diesen Phänomenen am stärksten betroffenen Regionen Subsahara-Afrikas. Obwohl es generell an Daten zur "Klimamigration"...

To achieve a better understanding of the diverse vulnerabilities of different social groups affected by the tsunami in December 2004 in Sri Lanka, a survey of 500 households in the Sri Lankan urban area of Galle has been conducted in cooperation with several institutes under the direction of the...

In jüngster Zeit geäußerte Vorschläge, unter anderem von George Soros, sehen vor, die Flüchtlingskrise durch die Einrichtung von Sonderwirtschaftszonen in den Anrainerstaaten der Herkunftsländer der Migranten zu entschärfen. Würden dort Investitionen getätigt und Arbeitsplätze...

Regional organisations and migration regimes are increasingly being acknowledged in global migration policies. The global compacts for migration and on refugees adopted in December 2018 recognise the migration-related expertise and important function of regional organisations in the...

In this paper we have demonstrated how knowledge attributes of various kinds can be made visible in a knowledge map. Knowledge is not evenly distributed in space but shows discontinuities, gaps and heights. We use the concept of "epistemic landscape" to allude to the complex tapestry of...