The State of Environmental Migration 2014: A Review of the Year 2013

As the environment, climate change and migration complex nexus is drawing increasing attention in the contemporary international agenda, The State of Environmental Migration 2014: Review of the Year 2013 is the fourth of our annual publication , with a specific focus on the year 2013 and aiming to enhance understanding on natural disasters, sudden onset events and slow onset events and their links to human mobility. The publication is not only focused on 2013 events but does also consider the longer term impacts of a natural event on migration, as we can assess them with the state of knowledge we have in 2013, as well as developments at policy level relating migration, climate and the environment.

The report is jointly published by Sciences Po and the International Organization for Migration (IOM). IOM is particularly concerned with human mobility matters in the context of environmental degradation and a changing climate. The organization acknowledges that the migration, environment and climate change nexus has emerged as one of the thematic policy areas in expansion within national, regional and international migration and climate agendas. This new volume of the State of Environmental Migration is also part of IOM’s commitment to provide information and knowledge on different environmental migration issues and to engage with academic partners in the development of research, data and publications. The publication benefits from the agreement between IOM and the University of Michigan Ford School of Public Policy and from the work undertaken by Amanda Van Dort with IOM in 2014.

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