Mannheim researcher revolutionizes climate and peace research!

Mannheim researcher revolutionizes climate and peace research!

Mannheim, Deutschland - The Mannheim political scientist Melanie Sauter recently received funding as part of the Margarete von Wrangell Junior Professor program. Your current research focus is on the investigation of the connection between the climate, conflicts and peace consolidation. Her approach is particularly relevant, which also deals with humanitarian aid as well as international peace missions and political violence. A sample project by Sauter is the analysis of the use of rescue workers during the Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo from 2018 to 2020. This multidimensional perspective is crucial, since the challenges of climate change are increasingly classified in the context of migration and conflicts.

As part of the program, Dr. Kristina Petrova employs a full-time position for three years to strategically expand research on climate-related migration in conflict regions. Sauter and Petrova's tandem plans to examine the interactions between climate policy, political institutions and social actors. The goal is not only to develop new approaches to resilience strategies, but also to improve humanitarian aid in fragile states.

challenges of climate and environmental migration

The topic of climate and environmental migration is of international interest and is increasingly being discussed politically. A central element here is the need for regulations for safe and orderly migration. The Global Compact for safe, orderly and regular migration, which was adopted in 2018, addresses the role of natural disasters, environmental degradation and climate change as the causes of human mobility. However, the estimates about the number of people who migrate due to climate and environmental changes are often unclear, which is due to a lack of uniform definitions and a lack of data.

Earlier estimates of environmental refugees fluctuated: Jodi Jacobson suspected about 10 million refugees in 1988, while Norman Myers spoke of up to 150 million by 2050 in the 1990s. Critics indicate that many of the estimates are problematic because often only internally displaced persons are considered. The Internal Displacement Monitoring Center (IDMC) has collected data on catastrophic flight since 2008 and from 2008 to 2017 documented a total of 246.5 million people who were sold by geophysical and climate -related disasters.

research approaches and developments

Empirical research on climate and environmental migration has increased significantly. Innovative methods such as multi-agent simulation models and multi-level longitudinal analyzes enable long-term trends to recognize and to calculate probabilities. However, the concept of climate and environmental migration remains complex and controversial. A general definition is missing, which makes the discussion about the causes of migration difficult and produces different scientific approaches.

The debate about the linking of climate change and migration is often borne by alarmistic and skeptical positions. While alarmists indicate impending humanitarian disasters, skeptics argue that environmental influences often have an indirect effect and that promoting migration depend on many factors. In order to do justice to this multicausal nature of migration decisions, a higher -level term such as "environmental migration and displacement" (EMD) is recently proposed, which could take the phenomenon.

The current developments show how important it is to promote research on the interactions of climate policy, human mobility and institutional framework conditions in order to promote resilience in affected regions and to develop political strategies that react to the real challenges of climate and environmental migration.

For more information on the promotion of Melanie Sauter, please visit Uni Mannheim . Additional details on climate-related migrations can be found on the BPB href = "https://www.bpb.de/themen/migration-integration/kurzdossiers/286832/umwelt-und-klimamigration-kreis-und-definitionen/"> bpb .