{"id":503,"date":"2011-12-04T22:22:40","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T03:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/pbose\/?page_id=503"},"modified":"2024-05-21T07:51:07","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T12:51:07","slug":"environment-and-displacement","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/pbose\/research\/nature-culture-interaction\/environment-and-displacement\/","title":{"rendered":"Displacement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I collaborated with Dr. Elizabeth Lunstrum (Geography) and Dr. Anna Zalik (Environmental Studies) at York University as leaders of the Environmental Displacement Cluster of the Canadian Refugee Resettlement Network. \u00a0We hosted a conference at the Centre for Refugee Studies at York University in May 2012 that addressed the issue of environmentally induced displacement (EID) that focused on issues of climate change, resource extraction, and conservation in particular. \u00a0Two publications in particular have come out of this workshop: a special issue of the journal <em>Refuge<\/em>\u00a0(January 2014) dedicated to the topic of environmentally-induced forced migration and an issue of the journal <i>Area <\/i>(May 2015)\u00a0dedicated to exploring\u00a0the idea of EID. \u00a0Please\u00a0click below to download the introductions to these special issues:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/pbose\/files\/2011\/12\/Refuge_Intro.pdf\">Refuge_Intro<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Area_Intro<\/p>\n<p>As part of my broader work on displacement and environment I am particularly fascinated by the ways that climate change &#8212; not only in\u00a0terms of the transformations it will bring to our landscapes but the attempts to ameliorate such effects &#8212; will impact marginalized groups. \u00a0Among the specific examples I am interested in is the case of\u00a0Bangladesh is often discussed in both scholarly literature and popular discourse as one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to the possible effects of climate change. \u00a0Images of rising waters, flooded fields, and displaced farmers in the region have become an iconic symbol used in debates both locally and elsewhere. \u00a0The past decade has seen a tremendous growth in domestic and international initiatives designed to ameliorate the impacts of climate change. \u00a0In many ways, \u201cclimate change adaptation\u201d has become as much of a part of the development mantra today as microcredit, participation, and shrimp aquaculture have been in earlier eras. \u00a0I argue that climate change mitigation and adaptation have emerged as a new set of development orthodoxies in the following article published in\u00a0<em>Area:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/pbose\/files\/2011\/12\/Bose_10.1111_area.12178.pdf\">Bose_10.1111_area.12178<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I collaborated with Dr. Elizabeth Lunstrum (Geography) and Dr. Anna Zalik (Environmental Studies) at York University as leaders of the Environmental Displacement Cluster of the Canadian Refugee Resettlement Network. \u00a0We hosted a conference at the Centre for Refugee Studies at York University in May 2012 that addressed the issue of environmentally induced displacement (EID) that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/pbose\/research\/nature-culture-interaction\/environment-and-displacement\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Displacement<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":360,"featured_media":865,"parent":420,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-503","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/pbose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/pbose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/pbose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/pbose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/pbose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/pbose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1144,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/pbose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/503\/revisions\/1144"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/pbose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/pbose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/pbose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}