Cristani, Federica, Elisa Fornalé and Sandra Lavenex

Environmental Migration Governance at the Regional Level
2020

The diverse impacts of environmental changes on human beings are increasingly being documented. The effects of such changes can be difficult to isolate from the multiple factors that may increase voluntary or forced movement at the domestic or international level (OHCHR, 2018). These movements can be related to severe weather events, as regularly reported by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), which can result in temporary and/or internal displacement (IDMC, 2018). Indeed, the impacts of sudden-onset events on internal displacements are constantly increasing; on average, 21.7 million people were internally displaced each year in the period 2008–16 by weather-related