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Seeking a disability lens within climate change migration discourses, policies and practices

Year: 2019

Type: article

Abstract: Around 15% of the global population is estimated to live with disability. With the Millennium Development Goals failing to recognise disability issues, the Sustainable Development Goals seek to promote a stronger focus on the alleviation of poverty and inequality amongst disabled people. Since then, the vulnerability of disabled people has been highlighted within international climate change agreements. Yet a critical disability lens is largely lacking from broader aspects of climate change adaptation planning. Focusing primarily on examples from the Asia-Pacific region (a region including low-lying coastal areas and islands that are frequently highlighted as exemplars of communities on the front line of climate change), this article discusses the need to integrate critical insights from disability studies into current understandings of climate change adaptation and mobility if we are to facilitate more inclusive, democratic and equitable adaptation in the face of climate change.

Source: Disability & Society

DOI: 10.1080/09687599.2019.1655856

Authors: Sarah L. Bell, Tammy Tabe, Stephen Bell

Institutions: University of Exeter, UNSW Sydney, Kirby Institute, University of the South Pacific

Language: English

Topic: Disability Rights and Representation

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Climate action, Reduced inequalities, Partnerships for the goals, Sustainable cities and communities, Good health and well-being

Open Access status: bronze

OpenAlex ID: W2970301980

FWCI: 5.695

Cites: 20

Cited by: 53

Related to: 10