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One good reason to speak of ‘climate refugees’

open access: yesForced Migration Review, 2015
The concept of ‘environmental refugees’, or ‘climate refugees’, has been progressively abandoned, as having no legal basis. I want to argue that there are good reasons to use the term.
François Gemenne
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Governance questions for the international community

open access: yesForced Migration Review, 2015
The Nansen Initiative has highlighted significant questions about how the international community should collectively think about displacement and mobility issues relating to natural disasters and climate change, and how to improve the governance thereof.
Alexander Betts
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International Disaster Risk Reduction Strategies and Indigenous Peoples

open access: yesInternational Indigenous Policy Journal, 2019
With more frequent and more intense disasters, disaster risk reduction (DRR) has become increasingly important as a fundamental approach to sustainable development.
Simon J. Lambert, John C. Scott
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Lessons from planned relocation and resettlement in the past

open access: yesForced Migration Review, 2015
Placing contemporary deliberations about relocation within a longer historical and intellectual framework reveals unexpected connections and salutary lessons.
Jane McAdam
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Brazil’s draft migration law

open access: yesForced Migration Review, 2015
Brazil is developing a long-term solution for filling a legislative gap affecting environmental migrants.
Isabela Piacentini de Andrade
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Statelessness and environmental displacement

open access: yesForced Migration Review, 2015
Stateless people and migrants are at greater risk of displacement and are less likely to receive assistance; in turn, environmental displacement (especially multiple migrations) heightens the risk of becoming stateless.
Jessie Connell
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Effects of Empowerment Programs on Nurses’ Competence in Disaster Response

open access: yesHealth in Emergencies & Disasters Quarterly, 2023
Background: It is necessary to prepare nurses for their important and accountable roles in disaster response teams. Given the lack of in-service training courses, nurses’ knowledge and skills in responding to disasters are lower than the desired level ...
Fatemeh Aliakbari   +3 more
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Prioritizing the telenursing care during incidents and disaster from the view of nurses

open access: yesمجله انفورماتیک سلامت و زیست پزشکی, 2021
Introduction: Uncertainty and sudden occurrence of disasters require special attention and nurses, as the largest human resource, have a critical role in maintaining and promoting the health.
Mahdiye Nejadshafiee   +3 more
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An integrated focus

open access: yesForced Migration Review, 2016
The key to successfully addressing the challenges of environmental, climatic and natural disasters is integrating migration concerns – including displacement – into all climate change, disaster risk reduction and development policies and frameworks.
William Lacy Swing
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Mixed motivations and complex causality in the Mekong

open access: yesForced Migration Review, 2015
Many climate change-affected communities have already been using migration as a means to adapt to and withstand the challenges to their livelihoods and security.
Jessica Marsh
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