Screen LibraryDisentangling migration and climate change methodologies, political discourses and human rights /
This book addresses environmental and climate change induced migration from the vantage point of migration studies, offering a broad spectrum of approaches for considering the environment/climate/migration nexus. Research on the subject is still frequently narrowed down to climate change vulnerabili...
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| Literature type: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6208-4 |
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This book addresses environmental and climate change induced migration from the vantage point of migration studies, offering a broad spectrum of approaches for considering the environment/climate/migration nexus. Research on the subject is still frequently narrowed down to climate change vulnerability and the environmental push factor. The book establishes the interconnections between societal and environmental vulnerability, and migration and capability, allowing appreciation of migration in the frame of climate as a case of spatial and social mobility, that is, as a strategy of persons and g |
| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xix, 259 p.) : ill. |
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9789400762084 (electronic bk.) 9400762089 (electronic bk.) |
| Index Number: | QC903 |
| CLC: | P467 |
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Introduction. The Climate-Migration Nexus: A Reorientation / Methodologies and Methods. Migration and Climate Change: Toward an Integrated Assessment of Sensitivity / How Demographic Change and Migration Influence Community-Level Adaptation to Climate Change: Examples from Rural Eastern Ontario and Nunavut, Canada / A Methodology for Assessing Patterns of Labour Migration in Mountain Communities Exposed to Water Hazards / Which Household Characteristics Help Mitigate the Effects of Extreme Weather Events? Evidence from the 1998 Floods in Bangladesh / Areas of Concern: Politics and Human Rights. Defining Environmental Migration in the Climate Change Era: Problem, Consequence or Solution? / Challenges and Pitfalls of Resettlement: Pacific Experiences / Climate Change and Planned Relocation: Risks and a Proposal for Safeguards / Disasters, Displacement and Protection: Challenges, Shortcomings and Ways Forward / Conclusion. Entitlements, Capabilities and Human Rights / |