In collaboration with partners, my research aims to:
I) establish a global database of disaster and climate-related planned relocation cases,
II) assess planned relocation processes and outcomes (what does “success” look like?),
III) identify actionable gaps to make planned relocation policy & practice more just across scales, and
IV) amplify community-led advocacy for solutions.
Leaving Place, Restoring Home: Enhancing the Evidence Base on Planned Relocation Cases in the Context of Hazards, Disasters and Climate Change
Unpacking Spatial Complexity: Case Studies of Planned Relocation with Multiple Origin and Destination Sites
Mapping of planned relocation cases: a foundation for evidence-based policy and practice
Qualitative Comparative Analysis: Enabling pathways for sustainable livelihoods in planned relocation
Focus group analysis: Navigating justice tensions in managed retreat
Spatial analysis: Planned relocation may reduce communities’ future exposure to coastal inundation but effect varies with emission scenario and geography
A missing link? The role of international organizations in climate-related planned relocation
To Fund or Not to Fund? Human Rights Guardrails for Financing Planned Relocations of Communities Facing the Climate Crisis
Complicating “community” engagement Reckoning with an elusive concept in climate-related planned relocation
Priorities for consent-based and well-supported climate relocations Framework for understanding diverse relocation contexts and advocacy/research priorities
“The Sea Is Eating The Land
Below Our Homes”
Indigenous Community Facing Lack of Space and Rising Seas Plans Relocation
“There’s Just No More Land” Community-led Planned Relocation as Last-resort Adaptation to Sea Level Rise in Solomon Islands
“Waiting for God”
Flood Displacement and Planned Relocation
of Fisherfolk in Saint-Louis, Senegal
Erica Rose Bower 