ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights the complexity of the disaster migration nexus. Environmental circumstances alone are not responsible for resettlement, but they can exacerbate the social and economic conditions under which households choose to move from their place of origin. An important challenge for developing adequate interventions is the collection of policy-oriented empirical research. Migration is a complex phenomenon associated with a variety of social, anthropological and political epistemologies. There are also number of concepts such as environmental migration, environmentally induced forced migration/displacement and environmental refugees used in the literature without general agreement on the precise definitions. This lack of agreement can generally be attributed to a refinement in the conceputalization of the environment migration nexus. In this context, strategies to manage disaster risk in vulnerable communities are needed. Humanitarian interventions provide some assistance to environmentally induced migrants, especially in the context of internal displacement, but additional national and international mechanisms might be needed to cope with large-scale migration under climate change.
