Displacement induced by climate change adaptation : The case of ‘climate buffer’ infrastructure

Climate buffer infrastructure is on the rise as a promising ‘green’ climate adaptation strat-egy. More often than not, such infrastructure building is legitimized as an urgent technical inter-vention—while less attention is paid to the distribution of costs and benefits among the affected population. However, as this article shows, adaptation interventions may directly or indirectly re-sult in the relocation or even eviction of households or communities, thereby increasing vulnerabilities for some while intending to reduce long-term climate vulnerabilities for all. We argue that this raises se... Mehr ...