5th International Disaster and Risk Conference IDRC 2014 Integrative Risk Management - The role of science, technology & practice 24-28 August 2014 in Davos, Switzerland
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IDRC Davos presentation Doberstein FINAL Aug 24
1. Climate change-related relocation in LDC
cities: A review of existing guidelines for
informal settlements
Stilt homes:
Manila, Philippines
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Dr. Brent Doberstein,
University of Waterloo
bdoberst@uwaterloo.ca
2. Next 13 minutes…
• Origin of research/rationale
• Methods
• Results
• Brief conclusions
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3. Rationale/‘Gap’
• Broad understanding:
• Climate change-related displacement has/will
continue to affect millions of people
• Human displacement: a sorely neglected aspect of the
current climate change debate (emphasis added, Displacement
Solutions 2011)
• Planned or assisted relocation increasingly seen as a
logical and legitimate climate change (CC) adaptation
strategy (IOM 2010, Black et. al. 2011).
• Relocation planning as an adaptation strategy is virtually
nonexistent in (CCA) policy design. (ADB 2012) 3
4. Types of CC Displacement
Presentation
focus
(Displacement Solutions 2011)
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5. Research Method
Question: to what extent is guidance available for CC
relocation practice?
• Guidance=principles, ‘how-to’ manuals, policy
documents, guidelines, etc.
• Guidance? comprehensive vulnerability
reduction through resettlement
• Physical, social, economic, political & ecological
vulnerability reduction
Method:
-secondary document search (n=47)
-contents analysis of ‘top’ documents (n=8)
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6. Results
Three Gorges Dam resettlement
• Abundance of ‘resettlement’ guidance
• Development-induced displacement &
resettlement (DIDR)
• Conflict resettlement
• Disaster resettlement
• Very little CC-specific guidance
• Most useful sources emerged >2011
• No informal settlement-specific guidance
Zaatari settlement, Jordan
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7. Relocation as a last resort
• Almost all existing guidelines (DIDRCC-related)
state this is some way or another
• Uncertainty: huge challenge for CC relocation
• How can planners be certain CC impacts
necessitate relocation?
• Careful assessment of CC implications
• Natural-hazard related ‘evidence’
• E.g. Increasing flood levels, frequency, impacts, etc
• Requests by communities
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