A New Deal for Refugees: How Land Restoration and Infrastructure Modernization Can Help Solve the Refugee Crisis
Consilience: The Journal of Sustainable Development
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A New Deal for Refugees: How Land Restoration and Infrastructure Modernization Can Help Solve the Refugee Crisis
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Goldman, Jonas Philip
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The migrant crisis in Europe is the largest since WWII. Millions of migrants are without hope or a source of income. However, this tragedy could present an opportunity for Europe as the EU currently faces two problems, which a large influx of labor could fix. First, decaying outdated European infrastructure and construction and secondly the abandonment of European farmland. During the 1920’s the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), a government program from the great depression, employed large numbers of unemployed men in land management fields. Just as the CCC addressed the environmental and social problems of its day, a modern government program modeled after the CCC could address the issues currently facing the EU. This paper lays out a roadmap for just such a program outlining how the EU could employ refugees to address the current environmental issues facing Europe. The paper also explores potential uses for abandoned farmland, such as re-utilization for agriculture, agroforestry and re-wilding as well as the management, funding and potential issues faced by such a program.
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Columbia University Libraries
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2017-07-01
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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application/pdf
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https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/consilience/article/view/3882
10.7916/consilience.v0i18.3882 |
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Consilience; No. 18 (2017): Issue Eighteen: 2017
1948-3074 |
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eng
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https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/consilience/article/view/3882/1663
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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