Erica Bower
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Researcher-advocate advancing tools to help communities plan to relocate - or stay - with dignity in a changing climate 🌎🌍🌏
Palo Alto, California
Joined July 2014
RT @PaulaGaviriaB: ✳️ Last month, I was moved by the stories of leaders and advocates from communities relocating due to climate change. 🤝🏾….
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I am no longer using this platform actively. Follow me on Bluesky here @ericarosebower.bsky.social.
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RT @hrw: Sea level rise and other climate impacts are undermining the rights of the people of Walande, an Indigenous community in Solomon I….
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RT @hrw: NEW: Intensifying climate impacts have displaced members of Walande and other coastal communities in Solomon Islands, threatening….
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RT @UNPiper: Policies on 'planned relocations' have become an imperative in a changing climate. Happening already in many Small Island Deve….
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At COP29? Join this side event tomorrow where we tackle one of the most thorny aspects of the #ClimateCrisis. No community *wants* to abandon their home, but if it’s a last resort, how to plan a relocation in a dignified way? What role can human rights guardrails play?.
📢 Happening at @COP29_AZ: How to align planned relocations with human rights-based approaches in the context of #climatechange and disasters? Find out at our event tomorrow: 📅15 Nov 2024.🕒13:00-14:00.📍Blue Zone, A1
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RT @CommsEarth: 👉Planned #relocations reduce communities’ risk of future #coastal #floods, but they do not eliminate it entirely – especial….
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RT @profjmcadam: In contemplating movement in the context of climate change and disasters, we need ‘culturally sensitive approaches that ma….
devpolicy.org
Integration of traditional environmental knowledge is essential for the management of climate displacement, say Naupa, Organo and Huffer.
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RT @m_yonetani: NEW study: #Displacement across borders- Review of literature, legislation & case law to protect persons displaced across b….
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RT @RPearshouse: “Planning a relocation is about much more than just rebuilding houses… It’s about access to education; it’s about access t….
theworld.org
Panama has built a new village for the residents of Gardi Sugdub, an island in the Caribbean that is expected to sink due to climate change.
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Today we honor Blas Lopez, a Guna Indigenous leader who walked the talk of community-led, rights-respecting #climateadaptation. Tragically, he passed days after his community was given keys to their new, safer homes: a dream he'd worked towards since 2010.
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Today we honor Blas Lopez, a Guna Indigenous community leader from the small, flood-prone island of Gardi Sugdub, Panama. Tragically, he passed away last week from a sudden and unexpected illness.
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RT @DDisplacement: “Planned relocation in the context of disasters and climate change is already happening around the world and this is exp….
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Mark your calendars: Join the Special Rapporteur @PaulaGaviriaB, @DDisplacement and cosponsors for a conversation on rights-respecting planned relocation in the context of disasters and climate change on 21 June in Geneva & online. More here:
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RT @RPearshouse: Great news on the planned relocation of Gardi Sugdub in Panama:. “Time is of the essence: as climate change accelerates, t….
nbcnews.com
More than 1,000 people evacuated the island to mainland Panama, becoming the first community along the country’s coast to do so because of climate change.
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RT @keesvdgeest: 📢📢Out now: Our paper highlights 3 fundamental tensions in #ClimateChange-related #PlannedRelocation: 1) conceptualizations….
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RT @profjmcadam: The @KaldorCentre Principles on Climate Mobility are now published in the International Journal of Refugee Law https://t.c….
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Gardi Sugdub provides a glimpse into what an Indigenous community-led, government-supported planned relocation as climate adaptation can look like, but there are lessons to be learned. Panama should draft a policy to safeguard rights in future relocations.
hrw.org
Today, the Guna Indigenous people living on the tiny, overcrowded, and flood-prone island of Gardi Sugdub in Panama will finally be given keys to their long-awaited new homes on the mainland.
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RT @ElliotSmithCph: "The Panamanian government is doing more than most governments around the world in supporting a community-led planned r….
hrw.org
Today, the Guna Indigenous people living on the tiny, overcrowded, and flood-prone island of Gardi Sugdub in Panama will finally be given keys to their long-awaited new homes on the mainland.
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RT @MyrtoTilianaki: Great piece on Panama's unmet promises regarding the Gardi Sugdub planned relocation & the need for a national policy t….
news.mongabay.com
Plans to relocate an Indigenous community from a tiny Caribbean island off Panama to the country’s mainland to escape rising seas have been delayed due to administrative issues, previous COVID-19-r...
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RT @PaulaGaviriaB: 🚨 Don't miss the opportunity to contribute to my thematic report on climate change and internal displacement for the 56t….
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BackgroundThe Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons (IDPs), Ms.
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