The issue of what links exist between environmental change and migration has been attracting increasing attention both in the media and in the scientific community in recent years. There is still a lot of uncertainty about how exactly environmentally induced migration and its effects should be...

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...

Im System der Vereinten Nationen (UN) zählt Migration zu den politisch umstrittensten Themen. Das zeigt sich an den Millenniums-Entwicklungszielen (MDGs): Sie sind Ausdruck eines Modells menschlicher Entwicklung, in dem menschliche Mobilität fehlt. Bemühungen, in den UN eine Debatte über den...

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...

Contents -- Introduction - Climate Change and Human Mobility After Paris -- Introduction -- Science -- Policy -- Chapters in This Volume -- Remittances -- Livelihoods -- Land -- Looking Forward -- References -- Part I: Mountain Areas -- Chapter 1: An Index Based Assessment of Vulnerability to...

Climate change and land degradation have considerably altered the conditions for rain-fed agriculture in Northern Ghana. Furthermore, population pressure has led to continuous farming of available agricultural lands and thus caused land degradation. Crop failure and decreasing yields that result...

Whereas South American countries are experiencing increased population movements in the context of climate change, the international climate governance agenda calls for the adoption of specialised legislation and for enhanced cooperation among different policy frameworks. The revision and update...