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Climate Refugees:What happens when human-
influenced environmental change impacts the fundamental
existence of an entire community?
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Nature & Society: Climate Refugees• Define “climate refugees” and climate change• Examples of climate refugees• Incorporate key concepts of human geography• Discuss implications and solutions for those displaced
by human-influenced environmental change
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What is a climate refugee?
• No universally agreed upon definition• Also known as “environmental refugees” or
“environmental migrant”• An estimated 50 million people have been
displaced in the last four years because of rising sea levels, desertification, dried up aquifers, weather-induced flooding and other serious environmental changes. (UN)
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What is a climate refugee?
• "People who are displaced from- or who feel obliged to leave- their usual place of residence, because their lives, livelihoods and welfare have been placed at serious risk as a result of adverse environmental, ecological or climatic processes and events." (UN)
• Many are technically IDPs, but the media refers to them as refugees
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What is climate change?• Environmental response to increased levels of
green house gasses (GHG) in the atmosphere.• Most GHGs come from industrialization and
development.• Earth is not just warming, but reconfiguring its
whole climate.
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What causes climate change?
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Climate Change impacts• More frequent and severe weather patterns
(including storms and drought)• Rising sea levels• Coastal erosion• Ground water salination
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Relevant Concepts
• Cultural ecology vs. political ecology• Impacts of land-use change on the
environment• Industrialization and urbanization have a
global impact.
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Examples of climate refugees
350.org
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Bangladesh
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Bangladesh
Mohammad Rakibul Hasan
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Bangladesh
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Small Island States
Residents of Tuvalu, a Polynesian Island situated midway between Hawaii and Australia, struggle with rising sea level.
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Maldives
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Carteret Islands
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Carteret IslandsThe islands are so small that they’re barely visible on the map.
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Google doesn’t even ID Carteret Islands on the map
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Nature & SocietyI=PAT
(Impact on Resources = Population x Affluence x Technology)
But who is using the resources? And who is feeling the impact?
Alaskan barrier island struggling to combat sea level rise.
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Key Concepts
• Cultural ecology vs. political ecology– Which best relates to the plight of climate refugees?
• Land-use change affects the environment, both locally and globally.
• Industrialization and urbanization (land use changes) have a global impact.
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Political Ecology and Climate Refugees
• Carbon in the atmosphere is unseen, difficult to comprehend its role in environmental change
• Climate and GHG mitigation policies influence the global environment (atmosphere, oceans)
• Cap and Trade• Global policy impacts cultural ecology
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Isle de Jean Charles, Louisiana
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Isle de Jean Charles, Louisiana
CHRIS GRANGER / THE TIMES-PICAYUNE
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Isle de Jean Charles, Louisiana
CHRIS GRANGER / THE TIMES-PICAYUNE
Are the Boloxi-Choctaw Indians climate refugees?
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Conclusions• Marginalized communities feel the effects of
climate change first and most severely• Those who contribute the least to climate
change are impacted most
Climate refugees flees coastal Bangladesh to the inland slums. (Radio Netherlands)
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Want to learn more?
• www.350.org• www.islandsfirst.org
• http://www.storyofstuff.com/capandtrade/
• Talk to me!