Poor people in much of the world are constantly threatened by the variability of the weather that they experience from year to year. Even without the effects of climate change, weather variability threatens the livelihoods of poor people. Poor people have become very good at adapting to the vicissitudes of their weather, and the capacities that they have developed to cope with current variability are indicative of those that will be needed to adapt to the effects of climate change. Unfortunately, poor people are already close to the limits of their capacities

Despite Muslim States hosting large numbers of refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs), the inherent protection and assistance afforded to forced migrants at Islamic Law has largely been overlooked. There is no readily available particularized fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) on the matter, and it was not until the early 1990s that a few Islamic scholars began delving into the Shariah in the interests of finding Islamic modes of protection. Since that time, with the exception of a few recent fatwas, little academic scholarship has persisted despite

Appears as a chapter in Communicating Disasters: An Asia Pacific Resource Book, Gunawardene, Nalaka and Noronha, Frederick (Editors) 160 pages; 17.3 cm x 24.4 cm; 19 chapters + 7 appendices

Large-scale disasters are growing. On the one hand, global warming and unprecedented environmental change are resulting in disasters more frequent and calamitous than before. Natural disasters such as earthquakes (Kashmir, 2005), floods (Bangladesh, India and Nepal, 2007), landslides and mudslides (Bam, 2003; Chittagong, 2007),

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Published twice a year, Migration is an update on the Organization's activities and international migration policy issues. Migration is available in English, French and Spanish.

Table of Contents:

- Managing Labour Mobility in the Evolving Global Economy
- Europe's Population Development, Labour Market and Migration
- Looking East to Bridge Labour Gap as Poles Head West
- Surviving the Global Economy - Mauritius Moves Towards Another Miracle
- In Search of the Open Door: Labour Migration from Colombia to Canada

As cities expand, a key challenge is securing water supplies for urban populations and disposing of pollution while minimising impacts on peri-urban communities and the environment. The pressures of urban growth combined with the institutional and policy vacuum associated with management of natural resources in peri-urban areas ultimately often leads to competition, contestation and conflicts over water.

This book is about the dialogues and negotiations underway in many peri-urban cities in the South to address these conflicts. It shows how people and communities without good access

This report analyses the coherence and coordination dilemma in peacebuilding systems, with special reference to the UN integrated missions concept. It argues that all peacebuilding agents are interdependent in that they cannot individually achieve the goal of the overall peacebuilding system. Pursuing coherence helps to manage the interdependencies that bind the peacebuilding system together, and coordination is the means through which individual peacebuilding agents can ensure that they are connected to the overall strategic framework process that binds

This paper examines the main elements and limitations of the ECOWAS free movement protocols. It evaluates the degree to which the protocols have been implemented in ECOWAS member states and identifies their utility to refugees from ECOWAS countries residing in other ECOWAS countries. It queries whether the protocols constitute a sound legal basis for member states to extend residence and work rights to refugees with ECOWAS citizenship residing in their territories who are willing to seek and carry out employment and describes current efforts to assist Sierra

Four assessments carried out by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) over the past 15 years have contributed to a growing consensus among the scientific community that humans are influencing the global climate system. These assessments confirm that climate change is contributing to dramatic transformations of the biophysical environment that will affect human settlements, ecosystem services, water resources, and food production, among other things. These transformations are likely to have widespread implications for individuals, communities, regions,