Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/61357
Title: Beyond migration: a critical review of climate change induced displacement
Contributor(s): Askland, Hedda Haugen (author); Shannon, Barrie (author); Chiong, Raymond  (author)orcid ; Lockart, Natalie (author); Maguire, Amy (author); Rich, Jane (author); Groizard, Justine (author)
Publication Date: 2022
DOI: 10.1080/23251042.2022.2042888
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/61357
Abstract: 

Scholarship on displacement caused by the effects of climate change generally approaches displacement as the involuntary movement of people. However, in this article, we argue that there are uncertainties surrounding Climate Change Induced Displacement (CCID) that are partly caused by discursive ambiguity around the notion of 'displacement' – a concept that remains poorly defined in the context of climate change research – and a conflation between displacement due to quick-onset disaster events and the cumulative pressure of living in an environment marked by a disrupted climate. Reflecting on the impacts of the Australian bushfires in 2019–20, we conceptualise CCID beyond migration as an event and a physical relocation across geographical space. Even fast-onset disaster events, such as the Australian bushfires, can dispossess and displace beyond the immediate threat of the fire front" but this displacement is not necessarily aligned with movement and migration, nor is it evenly proportioned across populations. Based on a review of existing literature on CCID, we identify three key tensions shaping scholarship on CCID: conceptualisation" distribution of risk and impact" and discursive framing. Together, we contend, these tensions highlight the imperative of striving for conceptual clarity and awareness of distributional inequities of risk and vulnerabilities.

Publication Type: Journal Article
Source of Publication: Environmental Sociology, 8(3), p. 267-278
Publisher: Routledge
Place of Publication: United Kingdom
ISSN: 2325-1042
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 4602 Artificial intelligence
Peer Reviewed: Yes
HERDC Category Description: C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal
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