Abstract
By 2050, between 25 million and 1 billion people globally could be displaced by extreme weather events, landscape degradation, and the environmental impacts of climate change. Environmentally displaced persons (EDPs) are people who are compelled to leave their homes in either the short- or the long-term because of an environmental hazard that affects their livelihoods, health, or physical safety. Latin America is a particularly important – and relatively understudied – region in which to explore migration driven by climate change, environmental degradation, inequalities, and conflict. This chapter advocates for a regional approach to future pathways of environmental migration in Latin America. Key to this approach is to first begin to sustainably manage natural resources and aggressively practice climate change mitigation activities within the region. These close ties could make migration slightly easier within the region than outside it and could drive more cross-border migration than in other regions. Long-term risk planning efforts must improve international and regional cooperation, capacity-building, and adaptive management of refugee resettlement programs, in order to address the reality of future environmental migration in an orderly manner. Migration should be considered as a valid adaptation approach in the face of rapid-onset events and for lowering exposure to slow-onset events and should be included in climate change adaptation action plans. Adaptive and forward-looking planning for environmental displacement is a way to avoid the anxiety, scrambling for funding sources, and sudden state of emergency in countries often associated with new refugee flows.
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Andrasko, B. (2022). Looking Ahead: A Human Security Perspective to Tackling the Potential for Widespread Environmental Migration in Latin America. In: Behnassi, M., Gupta, H., Kruidbos, F., Parlow, A. (eds) The Climate-Conflict-Displacement Nexus from a Human Security Perspective. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94144-4_5
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