CLIMATE CHANGE MIGRATION AS AN ADAPTATION STRATEGY: THE ADAPTATION APPROACH THEORY AND THE PARIS AGREEMENT
CLIMATE CHANGE MIGRATION AS AN ADAPTATION STRATEGY: THE ADAPTATION APPROACH THEORY AND THE PARIS AGREEMENT

Author(s): Giulia Manccini Pinheiro
Subject(s): Applied Geography, International Law, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Migration Studies
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: climate change; migration; adaptation strategy; Paris agreement; adaptation approach theory;
Summary/Abstract: In the 1990s scholars and experts predicted that climate change would trigger mass human mobility within the following decades (Geddes, Sommerville, 2013). However, climate change effects are often not the only cause of movement, as people also consider other factors such as economic situation, political stability, insecurity, attachment to a territory, the cost of relocation and their perspectives on a new place to settle (Mayer, 2011). At the same time, climate change effects can also exacerbate other social problems like population growth in dangerous areas, widespread poverty, famine and pandemic diseases (Myers, Kent, 1995).

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