Paper details

Paper authors	Ilan Kelman
In panel on	Climate Change and Humanitarianism
Paper presenter(s) will be presenting	In-Person / Online

Abstract

Several recent publications have called for an end to the separation of climate change from wider topics, by reshaping and breaking through boundaries to place climate change within disaster and humanitarian contexts. This work demonstrates how and why climate change affects some hazards, but does not necessarily influence vulnerabilities, meaning that the nature of humanitarianism might not need to change in principle. That is, climate change offers little new from previous humanitarian-related work, with a few exceptions. Consequently, opportunities exist to join forces, knowledges, and actions in order to tackle many on-the-ground challenges simultaneously, by placing climate change as a subset within wider humanitarian and development contexts. This conclusion is reinforced from humanitarian practice when actions on the ground to deal with climate change mitigation and adaptation are actions which need to be implemented anyway. A theoretical and practical framework integrates these different topics, crossing boundaries to bring different fields together for averting and responding to humanitarian crises.

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