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Climate change and displacement (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
Forced Migration Review 31: http://www.fmreview.org/climatechange.htm In response to growing pressures on landscapes and livelihoods, people are moving, communities are adapting. This issue of FMR debates the numbers, the definitions and the modalities and the tension between the need for research and the need to act. Thirtyeight articles ...
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Conservation areas 'attracting human settlement' (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
From: Science and Development Network Published July 11, 2008 08:50 AM by Catarina Chagas Protected conservation areas, previously thought to negatively impact marginalised rural communities, actually attract human settlement a situation that could risk ...
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AGRICULTURE - CHAD, Farmers, Herders Collide In Southern Refugee Camps (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
David Axe GORE, Jul 9 (IPS) Clarisse Larlombaye was nearly ruined when a herd of cows got into her rice field one night. The tiny 900squaremeter plot, outside the U.N.run Gondje refugee camp in lush southern Chad ...
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PAPUA NEW GUINEA, The world's first climate change "refugees" (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
PORT MORESBY, 8 June 2008 (IRIN) The 1,500 residents of Carteret Island, an atoll of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, are fast becoming the world's first climate change refugees. Sea levels around the atoll have ...
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Demography Is Not Destiny (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
Gib Clarke, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars on March 4, 2008 8:02am http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2008/03/04/demographyisnotdestiny The connections between security and demographic trendsincluding migration patterns, age distribution, and population growth rates\have become increasingly ...
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Report, People on the Move, Reducing he Impact of Human Migration on Biodiversity (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
http://worldwildlife.org/phe/migration/peopleonthemove.cfm  Summary: Although there is no blueprint for action there are many possible ways to reduce the environmental impacts, such as working in areas of origin to encourage people to stay, in areas of destination to reduce impacts when they do migrate, and at the policy ...
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Refugee Kurds Become Pawns In Power Play for an Oil Center (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
STEPHEN FARRELL Published: December 9, 2007   http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/world/middleeast/09kirkuk.html?r=1&hp&ore f=slogin KIRKUK, Iraq Even by the skewed standards of a country where millions are homeless or in exile, the squalor of the Kirkuk soccer stadium is a startling ...
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Aid shrinks as Iraq's internal refugee tally grows (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1130/p04s01wome.html By Sam Dagher\ Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor \\ November 30, 2007 edition AlManathra, Iraq AbdulHassan Hussein has heard that security is improving in his Baghdad neighborhood of Ghazaliya, recently a hotbed of Sunni extremists who ...
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Climate Change May Cost Florida US$345 Bln a Yr ,Study (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/45629/story.htm US: November 30, 2007 {}TALLAHASSEE, Fla. If nothing is done to combat global warming, two of Florida's nuclear power plants, three of its prisons and 1,362 hotels, motels and inns will be under water ...
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How to fight a rising sea (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
What the Netherlands has done and is urgently planning to do in the face of climatedriven sealevel rise holds important lessons for the rest of the world. By Peter N. Spotts\ Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor from the November 15, 2007 edition http ...
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