Andrea C. Simonelli
Andrea C. Simonelli, Ph.D. specializes in the political implications of climate change displacement including global governance, human rights, and durable solutions. Her work is situated at the nexus of displacement, development, disaster risk reduction, adaptation, and climate change. She has experience speaking and presenting her work in the USA, Europe, and Australia and has followed the development of the Loss and Damage Mechanism being developed by the UNFCCC negotiations. Her experience also includes field work in the Maldives.
Andrea's professional career includes 10 years of political fundraising; electing officials ranging from county commissioner to Congressman, raising millions of dollars, and training candidates and their respective staff.
Phone: +1 517 214 8228
Andrea's professional career includes 10 years of political fundraising; electing officials ranging from county commissioner to Congressman, raising millions of dollars, and training candidates and their respective staff.
Phone: +1 517 214 8228
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Migrants
The ideas in this Research Brief are the result of the 2010 Summer Academy
on Social Vulnerability organized by the United Nations University Institute for
Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) and the Munich Re Foundation
(MRF) from 25 to 31 July in Hohenkammer, Germany. The Academy brought
together 20 PhD researchers from 13 countries with international scholars to
consider issues of climate-related migration and future policy needs. The findings
were derived from focused workshops and from the results of four Roundtable
sessions convened with experts from the United Nations High Commissioner
for Refugees (UNHCR), the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the
European Commission, and the Council of Europe. The sessions explored a myriad
of issues on human displacement and migration related to climate variability and
disaster, with a particular focus on the gaps in current legal and institutional frameworks
to protect vulnerable populations. The Summer Academy prepared a synthesis
of these meetings in a separate report that can be accessed via the UNU-EHS
website: http://www.ehs.unu.edu/ and MRF website: http://www.munichrefoundation.
org/StiftungsWebsite/default.htm. This paper presents a summary of
the Academy’s findings including its reflections on policy options.
Migrants
The ideas in this Research Brief are the result of the 2010 Summer Academy
on Social Vulnerability organized by the United Nations University Institute for
Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) and the Munich Re Foundation
(MRF) from 25 to 31 July in Hohenkammer, Germany. The Academy brought
together 20 PhD researchers from 13 countries with international scholars to
consider issues of climate-related migration and future policy needs. The findings
were derived from focused workshops and from the results of four Roundtable
sessions convened with experts from the United Nations High Commissioner
for Refugees (UNHCR), the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the
European Commission, and the Council of Europe. The sessions explored a myriad
of issues on human displacement and migration related to climate variability and
disaster, with a particular focus on the gaps in current legal and institutional frameworks
to protect vulnerable populations. The Summer Academy prepared a synthesis
of these meetings in a separate report that can be accessed via the UNU-EHS
website: http://www.ehs.unu.edu/ and MRF website: http://www.munichrefoundation.
org/StiftungsWebsite/default.htm. This paper presents a summary of
the Academy’s findings including its reflections on policy options.
This paper will proceed as follows. First, I will define each type of displacement, necessary concepts and categories. Next, I will review the literature on these models and demonstrate the difficulties between the models and their implementation and how the process reveals itself in practice. Finally I will connect these considerations with the climate change needs and explicate where more academic work needs to be done.