Launch of Open Access Volume: The Climate, Migration and Health Nexus

We are very pleased to share with you the launch of our new open access volume, The Climate, Migration and Health Nexus: Opportunities for Interregional Cooperation, published by Springer. This has been a long work in progress with many of our network members, and we are so happy to finally see our book published online. 

Developed within our CliMigHealth network and co-edited by Ilse Ruyssen, Sonja Fransen, Robert Oakes, and Charlotte Scheerens, this volume brings together leading scholars and practitioners to advance understanding of one of the most pressing challenges of our time: the interconnected dynamics between climate change, human migration/mobility, and health systems.

The book features contributions from a diverse group of experts within our network, including Ilan Kelman, Nidhi Nagabhatla, Giulia M., Melissa Siegel, Patricia Trambauer, Sanae Okamoto, Amal Sarsour, Sujatha Alla, Bawa Singh, Ann-Christine Link, Jan De Maeseneer, Eloi Laurent, Mavuto Banda, Els M. Bekaert, Alix Debray, Vijay Kumar Chattu, Christian Lueme Lokotola, Rashmi Venkatraman, Hamish Caughey, Alexander Hunns, Ben Butlin, and Jenny Taylor. The foreword is written by Patricia Nayna Schwerdtle.

Adopting a transdisciplinary and international perspective, the volume provides new empirical insights and methodological approaches to better understand how climate change acts as a driver of migration and shapes health outcomes across diverse contexts. It also highlights the critical role of regional governance and interregional cooperation in addressing these complex, cross-border challenges. 

The book is structured around several key thematic areas:

• Conceptual foundations: Introducing the climate-migration-health nexus from interdisciplinary and policy perspectives.

• Climate change as a driver of mobility: Exploring how environmental stressors influence migration and displacement patterns across regions.
• Health impacts of climate-related migration: Examining physical and mental health outcomes, as well as challenges for health systems.
• Governance and policy responses: Analyzing regional and global frameworks, with a focus on interregional cooperation.
• Methodological and empirical innovations: Presenting new approaches and data-driven insights for studying the nexus.
• Case studies and regional perspectives: Highlighting experiences and lessons learned from diverse geographic contexts.
• Pathways forward: Offering recommendations for research, policy, and practice.

As an open access publication, the book is freely available to you and other researchers, policymakers, practitioners and the broad public worldwide, and all chapters can be accessed individually.

I warmly invite you to explore the volume and encourage you to share it within your own networks to help broaden its reach and impact. We will also keep you posted if events are organised to support the launch and further dissemination of our book. Additionally, a separate webpage will be created on our www.climighealth.org website under the menu dropdown: insights, where further information will be communicated. 

We would also like to express our sincere gratitude to the United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS), United Nations University-Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS), VLIR-UOS Belgium, the University Foundation of Belgium, the Erasmus University Library Open Access Book Fund, and the ITN-Ghent University regional platform program for their support in making this publication possible.

Access the book here: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-032-10550-9