Climate-Induced Migration: Challenges and Policy Responses
Author : Dr. Sushila Sahu
Abstract :
The study investigates climate-induced migration along with its many causes and effects and obstacles and solutions at government level. Climate change prompts population movement because of both extended processes of sea-level rise and desertification together with extreme events such as hurricanes and floods and this migration primarily affects communities that produced minimal greenhouse gas emissions. This paper evaluates the connections between climate change effects on human displacement patterns while also demonstrating failures in present protective standards and surveying resilience improvement solutions and developing complete policy solutions. Both environmental conditions and socioeconomic factors united with political variables control the migration choices making a wide range of mobility patterns that strongly affect both origin and host communities. Three major obstacles exist in the present refugee framework with insufficient financial resources for adaptation and managed retreat and political opposition rising because of security-focused rhetoric. Through detailed analyses of Hondurian, Bangladeshi and Pacific Island communities the author examines multiple policy strategies which unite preventive and adaptive plans with protective measures. The necessary policy solutions for climate change involve international legal developments along with community-managed relocation plans and financial preparedness schemes and unified government management programs that perceive migration as both an adaptation strategy and a response to challenges. The paper establishes key research guidelines and policy approaches to improve climate mobility responses through support of affected communities' self-determinacy while safeguarding their protection in an unstable climate environment.
Keywords :
Climate-induced migration, environmental displacement, adaptation governance, planned relocation, climate vulnerability.
