De Gruyter Handbook of Climate Migration and Climate Mobility Justice

Accelerating climate change is widely predicted to have profound impacts on human mobility over the coming decades. Climate mobilities and immobilities invoke issues of justice and social inequality and pose numerous socio-cultural, health, economic, legal and political challenges. Current international legal frameworks and national governance mechanisms provide insufficient protection for people displaced by climate change who are often subjected to health risks, psychosocial trauma, human rights abuse, and even new climatic risks. At the same time, there is a need to better understand how climate change interacts with other mobility drivers and why many climate-affected people decide to stay put or remain trapped in at-risk locations. Drawing on a wide range of disciplinary traditions and featuring Indigenous voices and youth perspectives, this book introduces new conceptual frameworks and empirical studies to examine the unique challenges facing people on the move and those staying behind.

• Sheds new light on how climatic factors interact with environmental, sociocultural and economic drivers and dimensions of inequality
• Explores the linkages between climate change and human mobility
• Showcases new thematic areas

Andreas Neef is Professor of Global Development and Dean (Research) for the Arts, Education and Law Group at Griffith University, Australia. He has researched and published in the areas of global land and resource grabbing, climate mobilities and mobility justice, climate change adaptation, post-disaster response and recovery, and community resilience. He is an Associate Editor for the Climate Mobility Section of the journal Frontiers in Climate and has been a guest-editor of the topical collection on "Climate Mobilities and Mobility Justice" published in the journal Regional Environmental Change.

Natasha Pauli, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer in Environmental Geography at the University of Western Australia. Her research examines human–environment interactions in a range of settings from urban streetscapes to smallholder agriculture, with an emphasis on understanding how people perceive and manage ecological relationships under changing environmental conditions. Together with Andreas Neef, she edited the book "Climate-Induced Disasters in the Asia-Pacific Region: Response, Recovery, Adaptation", published by Emerald in 2020.

Bukola Salami currently holds the rank of Full Professor in the Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary. She is also Scientific Director of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at the Alberta Childrens Hospital Research Institute. Professor Salami’s research program focuses on policies and practices shaping migrant health as well as Black people’s health. She has been involved in over 80 funded studies totalling over $230 million and her research has contributed to practice and policy change. She founded and leads the African Child and Youth Migration Network, a network of 42 scholars from four continents.

"This excellent book innovatively connects timely questions about human mobility and climate change through a mobility justice perspective. It is organised around a series of rich thematic chapters that range from conceptual to more applied questions around health, security and the role of religion and spiritual beliefs. A must-read for students, scholars and policymakers who want to enable a more just approach to climate change and human mobility."

Ingrid Boas, Wageningen University & Research, the Netherlands

"A comprehensive compilation that addresses the many aspects of climate mobility and climate justice, drawing on both conceptual work and case studies from around the world. This is an important resource for climate mobility scholars."

Alex de Sherbinin, Columbia Climate School, United States