Just adaptation and relocation : new challenges for the Anthropocene

When Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines in November 2013, four million people were displaced and over a million houses were destroyed.1 More than 7000 people are confirmed dead or remain missing.2 Climate change promises to intensify the impact of weather-related natural disasters,3 making Typhoon Haiyan a warning of what a climate-change impacted future may promise. Indeed, in the past 18 months, Hurricanes Dorian, Irma, Maria and Harvey have devastated the Caribbean, a third of Bangladesh was submerged by flooding and Californian wildfires burned 1.2 million acres.