Displacements and public health in
the context of building exposure to risk
Pierre Ozer
Displacements induced by El Niño: a public health issue Side-event, Bonn, 8 Nov 2017 Ozer et al., 2014
Ozer et al., 2014 OCHA, 2017
June 2017
August 2017 Sept 2017 October 2017 Nouakchott, Mauritania
where small rainfall perturbations can have big effects including migration
Ozer, 2017
03-06-2014
100 m
11-07-2014
22-07-2014 100 m 10-08-2014 100 m 14-09-2014 100 m 03-10-2014 100 m 30-04-2016 100 m Cotonou, Benin,
where ‘immobility’ of trapped population has a huge impact on precarity and public health
De Longueville et al., 2017 Chokpon et al., 2017
Study area
18/12/2002 25/03/2004 08/11/2011 26/11/2013
Houses destroyed by the encroachment of the sea Houses destroyed
by the authorities
12/09/2015 26/12/2016 Two processes of habitats’ loss
18/12/2002 Dynamic of settlements 08/11/2011 Coastline retreat 26/11/2013
Progressive replacement of standing houses by makeshift houses near the coastline
Rapid destruction of the recent makeshilft houses
100 m
100 m
100 m
New habitat on the lake is yearly exposed to
Cap-Haïtien, Haïti,
where a mix of social inhabitability lead to a long-term maladaptation mechanism to climate change
Gracia & Ozer, 2017
Cap-Haïtien, Haïti Cap-Haïtien, Haïti