Disaster, Enviromental Change, Migration,and Humanitarian Action

Choose one more correct answer in the following hazard definition.

• A process, phenomenon or human activity that can cause loss of life, injury or other health impacts, property damage, social and economic disruption or environmental degradation

• A dangerous phenomenon, substance, activity or human condition

• Various things can have a bad, negative and detrimental impact on someone

• A serious disruption to the functioning of a community or society at any scale due to a hazardous event that interacts with conditions of exposure, vulnerability, and capacity, causing one or more of the following: human, material, economic, and environmental losses and impacts.

• A result of the way society reduces and manages risks and hazards

Choose the following definitions that define of the disaster.

• A result of the way society reduces and manages risks and hazards.

• A process, phenomenon or human activity that can cause loss of life, injury or other health impacts, property damage, social and economic disruption or environmental degradation

• Various things can have a bad, negative and detrimental impact on someone

• A serious disruption to the functioning of a community or society on any scale due to a hazardous event interacting with conditions of exposure, vulnerability and capacity, causing one or more of the following: human, material, economic and environmental losses and impacts.

Which of the following is true of migration caused by enviromental and climate change?

• a. Environmental phenomena that impact migration are classed as either disasters or environmental change

• b. Enviromental change can decrease people's capacity to move from impacted areas

• c. Enviromental changes can have gendered impacts

Which is of the following is true of the two main international conventions on climate change?

• a. They explicitly recognize the human mobility implications of climate change

• b. The urge States to support people affected by environmental and climate change

• c. The urge States to take action to support those who are unable to leave at-risk areas

• d. All of these

What are the three types of environmental migration?

• a. Labour migration, disaster displacement, and planned relocation

• b. Labour migration, yout migration, and disaster displacement

• c. Disaster displacement, voluntary migration, and planned relocation

• d. Disaster displacement, forced migration, and planned relocation

Why is the term "climate refugee" not an accurate description of someone who is on the move because of environmental change?

• a. It does not account for those migrating because of environmental phenomena

• b. The word "refugee" refers to a legal status not applicable in the context of climate change

• c. "Climate refugee" is not a commonly used term within international legal frameworks

• d. It only refers to those whose movement is forced, not those whose movement is voluntary

Which of the following is a characteristic of voluntary migration?

• a. Migration is typically a collective movement of an entire community or part of one

• b. It is often supported by public authorities

• c. Migration occurs mainly in the affected country in the anticipation of, and in respose to, slow changes and pressures

• d. Migration mostly takes place over short distances and is temporary

Under international human right law, which of the following rights might apply to enviromental migrants?

• a. The right to life

• b. The rights to move freely within a country

• c. The right not to be arbitrarily deprived of one's property

Which of the following is true of policy response to enviromental migration?

• a. They should be tailored to a specific context

• b. The should be broad enough to cover the full range of human mobility outcomes resulting from the situation

• c. There is no single approach to correctly designing a policy respose to enviromental migration

• d. All of these

What should be considered when developing a policy response to environmental migration?

• a. How to minimize displacement

• b. How to address displacement

• c. How to facilitate migration to adapt to enviromental chane and increase resilience