Background: Climate change is projected to cause substantial increases in population
movement in coming decades. Previous research has considered the likely causal …

Social protection, as a vulnerability response tool, is well-placed to equip climate-vulnerable
populations with resources that de-risk livelihoods and smooth consumption. This systematic …

This paper reflects on the resurgence and meaning of the adaptation concept in the current
climate change literature. We explore the extent to which the early political economic critique …

Social policy developed as a research field and academic discipline to ensure protection
from social risks in the era of emerging capitalism and industrialization. While welfare states …

Resettlement is a governmental program with inherent spatial effects in that it drives the
rearrangement of capital, labour, and land, and seeks to render people and space more …

This article describes an experimental Hunger and Climate Vulnerability Index showing the
relative vulnerability of food insecure populations to climate risks at country level, as a tool …

Immobility is inextricably, albeit often invisibly, linked to our understandings of human
mobility. Whenever we seek to understand the drivers or outcomes of migration, we are, in …

Poverty eradication and global warming are the two biggest challenges of our time. Yet they
are also inter-linked. While it has been widely demonstrated that climate change hinders …

Climate change is transforming the risks individuals and households face, with potentially
profound socioeconomic consequences such as increased poverty, inequality, and social …

Climatic variability and change is known to influence human migration patterns.
Researchers increasingly see migration as one of a range of potential means by which …