thumbnail image
    broken image
  • Home
  • What We Do
  • Publications
  • Types of Displacement 
    • Conflict Displacement
    • Climate Change
    • Disaster Mental Health
    • Indigenous Historical Trauma
    • Development Displacement
    • Statelessness & Exile
  • Projects 
    • Bearing Witness
    • Turning the Lens
    • Creative Space
    • States of Mind
  • Partners
  • Events & Media
  • Resources
  • CLIMATE DISPLACEMENT

  • Climate change brings extraordinary and unforeseen challenges that necessitate new ways of thinking to build resilience against environmental change and risk. Current research is starting to investigate climate change affects to our psychological health among national populations (American Psychological Association and Climate for Health, 2017), however a major gap remains in research for communities already moving across lands and borders. This raises concerns over whether the MHPSS field is prepared and able to respond to psychological needs for these climate displaced communities.

     

    Given that international law offers no routes to protection under current asylum processes for climate-related crises, we want to understand what psychological needs are facing communities at risk of displacement - with focus on stress, anxiety and depression indicators. By identifying the coping mechanisms and forms of therapy that can support climate-displaced communities in Atlanta, Bangladesh, and Kiribati we are aiming to measure people’s well-being while they adapt to their new settings to bring more concrete data to our understanding on resilience for climate migrants and refugees.

     

    The research will also attempt to identify how climate-displaced communities can better connect to mental health services. This will involve studying current and established platform for care in public health, but also community-led support networks that involved in education and capacity-building. Based on our findings, we will be addressing how climate mental health can be integrated into existing platforms for better coordination and collaborative MHPSS responses for displaced communities.

     

    We are currently forming a working group under this research agenda with those of particular experience working with communities migrating from or at risk of displacement in coastal towns, low-lying islands, and drought-impacted drylands.

     

  • REPORTS

    External to and published independently of Between Borders

  • broken image

    EcoAmerica, American Psychological Association and Climate for Health (2017): Mental Health and Our Changing Climate

    broken image

    The Climate Institute (2011): A Climate of Suffering - the Real Costs of Living with Inaction on Climate Change

    broken image

    UnPsychology Magazine (2018): Climate Minds Anthology. No.4 Spring 2018.

    broken image

    EcoAmerica and American Psychological Association (2014): Beyond Storms & Droughts: The Psychological Impacts of Climate Change

    broken image

    Climate Commission (2011): The Critical Decade: Climate Change and Health. Lesley Hughes and Tony McMichael.

    broken image

    U.S Global Change Research Program (2016): The Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health in the United States: A Scientific Assessment.

  • CLIMATE DISPLACEMENT

    IN THE MEDIA

  • The World's First Climate Refugees

    CBS News

    Climate Change Affecting Mental Health in northern Labrador

    The National

  • NEWS

  • America's first climate refugees

    The mental health cost of unchecked climate change

    Climate change linked to suicides of 59,000 farmers in India

    Climate change is causing PTSD, anxiety, and depression on a mass scale

    Are climate change pressures driving more mental illness in Africa?

    Climate change taking toll on mental health of Inuit

Changing the Narrative on Mental Health in Displacement. .

 

© 2018 All Rights Reserved

info@betweenbordersinternational.org

Links to Images

    Home
    Contact
    BB
Cookie Use
We use cookies to ensure a smooth browsing experience. By continuing we assume you accept the use of cookies.
Learn More