India, April 7 -- Research that is intended to help inform how communities around the world can better relocate amid natural disasters and intensifying climate change has been launched by UNSW Sydney's Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law and the state-led Platform on Disaster Displacement.

Faced with increasing exposure to disasters and the effects of climate change, some communities opt to move permanently out of harm's way. Some call this process 'planned relocation', and the new research maps hundreds of such community moves since 1970, in all parts of the world.

The phenomenon of planned relocation is global, and the study Leaving Place, Restoring Home, uncovers cases from 60 countries and territories. The study identifies t...