This book explores the complex nexus of climate change, labour, and migration with a specific focus on women and children, using Indonesia as a case study. It provides a comprehensive analysis of intersecting issues, drawing on transdisciplinary academic knowledge from fields such as law, social work, gender studies, public health, engineering, and urban planning. The book examines the future of climate change law in Indonesia, gender-based adaptation strategies, and the role of local leaders in managing sea level rise impacts. It investigates the effects of climate change on labour migration, social protection for informal workers, and economic resilience strategies for women and children. Additionally, it analyzes immobility and adaptation strategies, forced migration, and the role of local government in addressing migration and climate change. Special emphasis is placed on the legal frameworks and policies necessary for effective climate change mitigation and adaptation, as well as the principles of green criminology in understanding environmental injustices. This volume offers valuable insights and recommendations for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners to develop holistic climate change mitigation strategies that address the needs of vulnerable communities. It is essential reading for those interested in the intersections of climate change, migration, labour, law, and green criminology.
Laely Nurhidayah is a researcher at the Research Center for Law-National Research and Innovation Agency (PRH-BRIN) Jakarta Indonesia. She leads the environment law and natural resources governance (marine and forest) research portfolios in her research centre. She was awarded her PhD in Law from the Macquarie University, Australia in 2015. Her PhD thesis was entitled "Transboundary Haze Pollution in the ASEAN Region: An Assessment on the Adequacy of the Legal and Policy Framework in Indonesia". In addition, she has obtained her Master of Laws (Advanced) from TC Beirne School of Law, the University of Queensland Australia and received a Bachelor of Law from Jenderal Soedirman University in Indonesia.
Dr Amy Young
is a Research Fellow with Childlight East Asia and Pacific Hub, School of Social Sciences, University of New South Wales Sydney, and an Adjunct with the Disrupting Violence Beacon, Griffith University. Dr Young is a Co-Lead of the KONEKSI Research Collaboration on
Forced Labour and Climate Change: Keeping a focus on women and children. She has a passion for promoting children's rights, participation and protection, and addressing domestic and family violence. She has strong stakeholder management and program execution skills, and has worked as a research assistant on diverse projects. These have included projects focused on domestic and family violence, child protection, violence against children in Afghanistan, school age care in Australia and child protection in Indonesia. Wiwandari Handayani is a professor at the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Faculty of Engineering - Diponegoro University. Her research focuses on urban and regional resilience, mostly in the context of disaster risk management, climate adaptation, and governance. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in urban and regional planning (UNDIP), master's degrees in urban and regional planning (ITB) and population studies (ANU-Australia), and holds a doctoral degree from the University of Stuttgart - Germany in Regional Development Planning. She has been actively involved in works related to urban sustainability and resilience since 2011. She was on the team of the Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network (ACCCRN)-Rockefeller program in Semarang City and performed as M&E coordinator for several projects implemented in 2011-2014. She contributed ideas and insights for promoting a Resilient City in Semarang and some other areas in Indonesia since 2015. Currently, she has been engaging in several networks including GCSMUS focusing on SDG 11 and NUPS focusing on Migration and Climate Change supported by the German government, and awardee of some research grants including KONEKSI from the Australian Government, KOICA-South Korea, and LUCE-USA.
