published October 2008

Contents

Foreword
Achim Steiner

The need for collaboration
John Holmes

Human security policy challenges
Andrew Morton, Philippe Boncour and Frank Laczko

The numbers game
Oli Brown

Defining ‘environmental migration’
Olivia Dun and François Gemenne

Drowned in definitions?
Maria Stavropoulou

Field observations and empirical research
Koko Warner, Olivia Dun and Marc Stal

Central Asia
François Gemenne and Philip Reuchlin

Ghana
Kees van der Geest and Richard de Jeu

Gaps in IDP protection
Khalid Koser

Human rights implications
Scott Leckie

Island evacuation
Ilan Kelman

Social and political contexts of conflict
William A V Clark

Social breakdown in Darfur
Scott Edwards

Mobile indigenous peoples
Troy Sternberg and Dawn Chatty

Water – new challenges
Aidan A Cronin, Dinesh Shrestha and Paul Spiegel

Rural-urban migration in Ethiopia
James Morrissey

Alaskan communities’ rights and resilience
Robin Bronen

Health challenges
Manuel Carballo, Chelsea B Smith and Karen Pettersson

Pastoralists in Kenya
Mohamed Adow

Disasters and what to do about them
Reid Basher

Internal displacement in Nigeria
Ujah Oliver Chinedu

Disaster risk mitigation – why human rights matter
Walter Kälin and Claudine Haenni Dale

What humanitarians need to do
Jenty Kirsch-Wood, Jacob Korreborg and Anne-Marie Linde

Asking the right questions
David Stone

Hotspots – predictions and action
Jock Baker, Charles Ehrhart and David Stone

No regrets
Vikram Odedra Kolmannskog

The future is now
Craig L Johnstone

Adaptation and cooperation
Britta Heine and Lorenz Petersen

Kiribati – relocation and adaptation
Maryanne Loughry and Jane McAdam

Palau – coral reef protection
Jesse Cameron-Glickenhaus

Community-led adaptation in Bangladesh
James Pender

What it means for women
Women’s Environment and Development Organization

Communicating changing risks
Maarten van Aalst

Predictive modelling
Christopher Smith, Dominic Kniveton, Sharon Wood and Richard Black

A global research agenda
Koko Warner and Frank Laczko

Changing climate, changing policies?
Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah

Legal and normative frameworks
Roger Zetter

General articles

Recovery and the rule of law: what have we learned?
Kathleen Cravero

Protecting human rights in Darfur
Maarten Barends

Human trafficking: beyond the Protocol
Sergei Martynov

HIV/AIDS services for refugees in Egypt
Anna Popinchalk

International refugee law in Mexico
Axel García

Satellite imagery in use
Einar Bjorgo, Francesco Pisano, Joshua Lyons and Holger Heisig

Witchcraft and displacement
Jeff Crisp

Reproductive health in emergencies: new initiatives, renewed commitment
Claire Tebbets

IDPs from Chechnya in the Russian Federation
Nadine Walicki

Watch the wind