Few climate-related planned resettlement and relocation initiatives have taken place. However, initial findings, and experience from past development and disaster-related resettlement programmes, show that when implemented in a top-down manner and without the full participation of those affected, resettlement increases vulnerability by undermining livelihoods and negatively impacting health, community cohesion and emotional and psychological well-being . Planned relocation could also redistribute vulnerability for those who do not move  and vulnerability generally is reproduced along existing social cleavages often worsening inequality . Approaches that foreground participation, non-material and socio-cultural factors, livelihoods and local power dynamics can be addressed and adjusted to prevent planned relocation from reproducing inequality .
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Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
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