Climate change has become a major driver of forced displacements over the years. According to World Bank between 20 and 200 million people will be displaced by climate disasters 2050. Most “climate refugees” currently move within borders their own countries, however, when such migrants cross state borders, they not recognized as refugees according existing international conventions. Moreover, i...

An integrated environmental and economic assessment of land use for food, energy and timber in the UK has been performed using environmental Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and economic Life Cycle Costing (LCC), to explore complementary sustainability aspects of alternative land uses. The environmental assessment includes impacts on climate change, ecosystem services and biodiversity, all of which ...

To manage marine ecosystems proactively, it is important to identify species at risk and habitats critical for conservation. Climate change scenarios have predicted an average sea surface temperature (SST) rise of 1–6 C by 2100 (refs 1, 2), which could affect the distribution and habitat of many marine species. Here we examine top predator distribution and diversity in the light of climate chan...

AbstractLarge protracted outbreaks of hepatitis E virus (HEV) have been documented in displaced populations in Africa over the past decade though data are limited outside these exceptional settings. Serological studies can provide insights useful for improving surveillance and disease control. We conducted an age-stratified serological survey using samples previously collected for another resea...

The article is devoted to the analysis of constitutional right housing and its provision internally displaced persons in Ukraine countries that have experienced armed conflicts (using example Bosnia Herzegovina, Croatia Georgia).
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Foreigners, including displaced persons, often have limited health-care access, especially to HIV services. Outcomes of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in South Africans and foreigners were compared at a Johannesburg non-governmental clinic. Records were reviewed of 1297 adults enrolled between April 2004 and March 2007 (568 self-identified foreigners, 431 South Africans citizens and 298 with unkn...

Sudan (population 33·5 million) has suffered civil war and disruption for the past 21 years. Conflict in the Darfur region in the West of Sudan, bordering Chad, has displaced 1·5 million and resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands of people. Many have been forced out of their traditional areas into makeshift situations with limited supplies of water and food, together with difficulties in a...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to investigate a large outbreak of shigellosis in Papua New Guinea that began in a camp for internally displaced persons before spreading throughout the general community. METHODS Outbreak mitigation strategies were implemented in the affected area to curtail the spread of the disease. Data were collected from the surveillance system and analysed by t...