ABSTRACT
This chapter seeks to explore the urgent call for immediate and effective climate mobility action by proposing an institutional policy framework to address these research and policy lacuna. It provides to enable improved institutional responses to climate mobility, through the development of a framework for adoption by governments, while building the evidence base and academic dialogue for effective strategies. The chapter focuses on the three climate-related human mobility pathways slow-onset climatic stressors, extreme weather events, and their interaction as applied within three distinct case studies, wherein conflict and war are not present factors. Each of the case studies demonstrates complex issues with which governments need to contend when responding to the impacts of climate change on human mobility and community development. Migration and displacement are primarily referred to in relation to disasters, and not climate-induced environmental change such as sea level rise, despite recognising the role that climate plays in exacerbating disasters and impeding development.
