Peer-reviewed Journal Articles
Bower, Erica., A.R. Siders, Caroline Kraan, Katherine Mach, and Gabrielle Wong-Parodi. 2025. “Navigating justice tensions in managed retreat.” Environmental Science & Policy, 172, p.104191.
Bower, Erica, David Durand-Delacre, Annah Piggott-McKellar, Giovanna Gini, and Rachel Harrington-Abrams. 2025. “Priorities for consent-based and well-supported climate relocations.” Nature Communications 16, no. 1. 1-5.
Finegold, Charlotte, and Erica Bower. 2025. “To Fund or Not to Fund?: Human Rights Guardrails for Financing Planned Relocations of Communities Facing the Climate Crisis“. AJIL Unbound 119. 83-88.
Bower, Erica, Rachel Harrington-Abrams, and Betsy Priem. 2024. “Complicating “community” engagement: Reckoning with an elusive concept in climate-related planned relocation.” Global Environmental Change 88 (June): 102913.
Bower, Erica, Sonya Epifantseva, Sydney Schmitter, Gabrielle Wong-Parodi, Scott Kulp, and Christopher Field. 2024. “ “Planned relocation may reduce communities’ future exposure to coastal inundation but effect varies with emission scenario and geography.” Communications Earth & Environment. 5(1), 670.
Harrington-Abrams, Rachel, and Erica Bower. 2024. “A missing link? The role of international organizations in climate-related planned relocation.” Climate Policy, 1–14.
Gini, Giovanna, Annah Piggott-McKellar, Hanne Wiegel, Frederich Neu, Ann Christine Link, Claudia Fry, Tammy Tabe, Erica Bower et al. 2024. “Navigating Tensions in Climate Change-Related Planned Relocation.”
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Bower, Erica, Anvesh Badamikar, Gabrielle Wong-Parodi, and Christopher B. Field. 2023. “Enabling pathways for sustainable livelihoods in planned relocation.” Nature Climate Change 13 (9): 919–26.
Berlin Rubin, Nina, Erica Bower, Natalie Herbert, Bianca S Santos, and Gabrielle Wong-Parodi. 2023. “Centering Equity and Sustainability in Climate Adaptation Funding.” Environmental Research: Climate 2 (3).
Bower, Erica, Sanjula Weerasinghe, and Daria Mokhnacheva. 2022. “Mapping of Planned Relocation Cases: A Foundation for Evidence-Based Policy and Practice.” Forced Migration Review, no. 69: 48–51.
Santana, Francisca N., Courtney Hammond Wagner, Nina Berlin Rubin, Laura S.P. Bloomfield, Erica R. Bower, Stephanie L. Fischer, Bianca S. Santos, Gemma E. Smith, Caroline T. Muraida, and Gabrielle WongParodi. 2021. “A Path Forward for Qualitative Research on Sustainability in the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Sustainability Science 16 (3): 1061–67.
Coffel, Ethan D., Bruce Keith, Corey Lesk, Radley M. Horton, Erica Bower, Jonathan Lee, and Justin S. Mankin. 2019. “Future Hot and Dry Years Worsen Nile Basin Water Scarcity Despite Projected Precipitation
Increases.” Earth’s Future 7 (8): 967–77.
Garlick, Madeline, Marine Franck, and Erica Bower. 2018. Enhancing Legal Protection for People Displaced in the Context of Disasters and Climate Change: Challenges and Opportunities. Climate Refugees: Beyond the Legal Impasse?.
Reports, Blogs, Policy Briefs
Ferris, Elizabeth, Erica Bower, and Sanjula Weerasinghe. 2025. “Revisiting the 2015 Guidance on Planned Relocations: A decade of progress and future horizons.” Researching Internal Displacement.
Finegold, Charlotte and Erica Bower. 2025. “Waiting for God” Flood displacement and planned relocation of fisherfolk in Saint-Louis, Senegal. Human Rights Watch.
Bower, Erica and Charlotte Finegold. 2025. “There’s just no more land” Community-led planned relocation as last-resort adaptation to sea level rise in Solomon Islands. Human Rights Watch.
Bower, Erica, and Elizabeth Ferris. 2024. “Planned Relocations and Durable Solutions: Learning from parallel conversations.” Researching Internal Displacement.
Ferris, Elizabeth, and Erica Bower. 2023. “Planned Relocations: What we know, don’t know, and need to learn.” Researching Internal Displacement.
Bower, Erica. 2023. “The Sea is Eating the Land Below Our Homes”: Indigenous Community Facing Lack of Space and Rising Seas Plans Relocation. Human Rights Watch.
Durand-Delacre, David, Carolyne Cherop, Kees van der Geest, Carolien Jacobs, Frank K Nansam-Aggrey, Danang A Nizar, Melanie Pill, Himanshu Shekhar, Ryan Alaniz, Erica Bower, et al. 2023. “Integrating Planned Relocation in National Climate Action: Five key insights for consideration by governments and policymakers”
Weerasinghe, Sanjula, and Erica Bower. 2021. “Unpacking Spatial Complexity: Case Studies of Planned Relocation with Multiple Origin and Destination Sites“. Platform on Disaster Displacement (PDD).
Bower, Erica, and Sanjula Weerasinghe. 2021. “Leaving place, Restoring Home: Enhancing the evidence base on planned relocation cases in the context of hazards, disasters, and climate change.” Platform on Disaster Displacement (PDD) and Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, 1–73.
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