Advances in Earth Science ›› 2012, Vol. 27 ›› Issue (5): 573-580. doi: 10.11867/j.issn.1001-8166.2012.05.0573

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Policy Responses to Disaster-Induced Migration in a Changing Climate—Adjustment of Disaster-Induced Migration Policies based on “Regional 

Zhou Hongjian 1, Sun Yehong 2   

  1. 1.National Disaster Reduction Center of China, Ministry of Civil Affairs100124, China;2. Institution of Tourism Institute, Beijing Union University100101, China
  • Received:2011-10-24 Revised:2012-03-23 Online:2012-05-10 Published:2012-05-10

Zhou Hongjian, Sun Yehong. Policy Responses to Disaster-Induced Migration in a Changing Climate—Adjustment of Disaster-Induced Migration Policies based on “Regional [J]. Advances in Earth Science, 2012, 27(5): 573-580.

This paper firstly gives a brief introduction to “Regional conference on policy responses to climate-induced migration in Asia and Pacific”, which was held in Manila, the Philippine on September 15 and 16, 2011. Then in terms of the conference content, the newly significant progress, development trends of international disaster-induced migration (DIM), and relationship between DIM and regional disaster risk are analyzed comprehensively. Combining with the facts of the climate change in China and DIM cases in recent years, consisting of DIM due to the Zhouqu Flash Flood and Landslide disaster on 8 August, 2010 and drought disaster in Southern and middle of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, the policy responses of DIM in a changing climate are also put forward. These adjustments consist of four aspects. ① Distinguishing multi-hazard, coordinate the DIM based on the characteristics of sudden and low-onset hazards and establish the policy focusing on both emergency evacuation and resettlement and immigration from the places with the high level of disaster risk. ② Integrating multi-method framework, establish new conceptual model of DIM combining “top-down” and “bottom-up” methodologies; and the former model is the government-oriented policy, in which the migrants or communities usually did not take part or only few of them participated; while the latter model is the community-oriented policy, and the desire and activeness of migrants play an important role in the process of migration. ③ Across the multi-sector, establish the cooperation mechanism of “Government-CorporateCommunity / Personal partnership”, meaning the “Public-Private Partnership (PPP)”, and all of them are the key stakeholders and play different roles in the process of migration. ④ Syncretizing multi-scale, form the DIM from the perspectives of inter-region and intra-region cooperation, long-term  and short-term coexistence; and the inter-region migration cooperation is scarce in many cases now. The difference between the long-and short-term policies is that the former is due to the disaster risk and the later is due to the disasters. These proposed policies and conceptual models could provide an important reference in the process of enhancing the capacity of integrated disaster risk governance and minimizing disaster losses in China and other countries or regions with high sensitive to global climate change.

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