In search of remote communities, indigenous and non-indigenous, that have been forced to abandon longstanding, traditional homel

Hello,

I am writing to seek your assistance for a book I am researching, tentatively entitled THE CARARY NARRATIVES: How Twenty Five Million People Lost Their Homelands. I am in search of remote communities, indigenous and non-indigenous, that have been forced to abandon longstanding, traditional homelands as a consequence of climate change. I am hoping to describe in detail the experience of about a dozen communities existing in as many different ecosystems – mountain, island, arctic, riverine, desert, forest, savannah, coastal etc.— that have been so devastated by storm, drought, flood, heat, wildfire, disease or other consequence of global warming, that the place that once supported them became unliveable and people were either forced off their land by fate or opted to relocate.

Two examples I am already researching are Shishmaref, a storm battered coastal community in northeast Alaska, whose residents recently voted to relocate, and Lateu, a village on Tegua Island in Vanuatu I visited two years ago that has since been forced to move to higher ground by rising ocean levels. I have others in mind but need more to choose from.

If you know of even one community that has shared this experience, could you tell me as much as you can about it and perhaps provide the names and coordinates of others familiar with the episode, particularly people with direct and immediately experience with the decision making process that lead to evacuation.

Thank you,
Mark Dowie