Climate Change Vulnerability And Migration

Author : S. Irudaya Rajan,R. B. Bhagat
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351375573

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Climate Change, Vulnerability and Migration by S. Irudaya Rajan,R. B. Bhagat Pdf

This book highlights how climate change has affected migration in the Indian subcontinent. Drawing on field research, it argues that extreme weather events such as floods, droughts, cyclones, cloudbursts as well as sea-level rise, desertification and declining crop productivity have shown higher frequency in recent times and have depleted bio-physical diversity and the capacity of the ecosystem to provide food and livelihood security. The volume shows how the socio-economically poor are worst affected in these circumstances and resort to migration to survive. The essays in the volume study the role of remittances sent by migrants to their families in environmentally fragile zones in providing an important cushion and adaptation capabilities to cope with extreme weather events. The book looks at the socio-economic and political drivers of migration, different forms of mobility, mortality and morbidity levels in the affected population, and discusses mitigation and adaption strategies. The volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of environment and ecology, migration and diaspora studies, development studies, sociology and social anthropology, governance and public policy, and politics.

Author : Tamer Afifi,Jill Jäger
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642124167

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Environment, Forced Migration and Social Vulnerability by Tamer Afifi,Jill Jäger Pdf

This book is one of the outputs of the conference on ‘Environmental Change, Forced Migration, and Social Vulnerability’ (EFMSV) held in Bonn in October 2008. Migration is one of the oldest adaptation measures of humanity. Indeed, without migration the multitude of civilizations and interactions between them – peaceful and otherwise – would be hard to imagine. The United Nations (UN)-led global dialogue on migration is a clear sign that governments and the specialized UN agencies and bodies have recognized the need to view, govern, manage, and facilitate migration; to mitigate its negative effects; and to capitalize on the positive ones. It is a common expectation among experts that environmentally induced migration will further increase in the decades to come. Hence, next to the political, economic, ethnic, social, financial, humanitarian, and security aspects of migration, the environmental component should urgently be considered in the ongoing international dialogue on migration. This need is also a challenge. Without appropriate scientific knowledge, assessment, definitions, and classifications, the intergovernmental frameworks would not be able to deal with these complex phenomena. The Five-Pronged-Approach as formulated by the United Nations University (UNU) may serve as a framework to identify the additional dimensions of this challenge next to – and actually simultaneously with – the scientific one.

Author : Thomas Faist,Jeanette Schade
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400762084

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Disentangling Migration and Climate Change by Thomas Faist,Jeanette Schade Pdf

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 groups to deal with a grossly unequal distribution of life chances across the world. In their introduction, the editors fan out the current debate and state the need to transcend predominantly policy-oriented approaches to migration. The first section of the volume focuses on “Methodologies and Methods” and presents very distinct approaches to think climate induced migration. Subsequent chapters explore the sensitivity of existing migration flows to climate change in Ghana and Bangladesh, the complex relationship between migration, demographic change and coping capacities in Canada, methodological challenges of a household survey on the significance of migration and remittances for adaptation in the Hindu Kush region and an econometric study of the aftermath of the 1998 floods in Bangladesh. The second part, “Areas of Concern: Politics and Human Rights”, deepens the analysis of discourses as well as of the implications of proposed and implemented policies. Contributors discuss such topics as environmental migration as a multi-causal problem, climate migration as a consequence in an alarmist discourse and climate migration as a solution. A study of an integrated relocation program in Papua New Guinea is followed by chapters on the promise and the flaws of planned relocation policy, global policy on protection of environmental migrants including both internally displaced peoples and those who cross international borders. A concluding chapter places human agency at centre stage and explores the interplay between human rights, capability and migration.

Author : Frank Laczko,Christine Aghazarm
Publisher : UN
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCLA:L0102912581

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Migration, Environment and Climate Change by Frank Laczko,Christine Aghazarm Pdf

Gradual and sudden environmental changes are resulting in substantial human movement and displacement, and the scale of such flows, both internal and cross-border, is expected to rise with unprecedented impacts on lives and livelihoods. Despite the potential challenge, there has been a lack of strategic thinking about this policy area partly due to a lack of data and empirical research on this topic. Adequately planning for and managing environmentallyinduced migration will be critical for human security. The papers in this volume were first presented at the Research Workshop on Migration and the Environment: Developing a Global Research Agenda held in Munich, Germany in April 2008. One of the key objectives on the Munich workshop was to address the need for more sound empirical research and identify priority areas of research for policy makers in the field of migration and the environment.

Author : Benoît Maye,François Crépeau
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781785366598

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Research Handbook on Climate Change, Migration and the Law by Benoît Maye,François Crépeau Pdf

This comprehensive Research Handbook provides an overview of the debates on how the law does, and could, relate to migration exacerbated by climate change. It contains conceptual chapters on the relationship between climate change, migration and the law, as well as doctrinal and prospective discussions regarding legal developments in different domestic contexts and in international governance.

Author : Robert A. McLeman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107022652

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Climate and Human Migration by Robert A. McLeman Pdf

The first comprehensive review of the interaction between climate change and migration; for advanced students, researchers and policy makers.

Author : Thomas Faist,Jeanette Schade
Publisher : Springer
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9400762097

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Disentangling Migration and Climate Change by Thomas Faist,Jeanette Schade Pdf

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 groups to deal with a grossly unequal distribution of life chances across the world. In their introduction, the editors fan out the current debate and state the need to transcend predominantly policy-oriented approaches to migration. The first section of the volume focuses on “Methodologies and Methods” and presents very distinct approaches to think climate induced migration. Subsequent chapters explore the sensitivity of existing migration flows to climate change in Ghana and Bangladesh, the complex relationship between migration, demographic change and coping capacities in Canada, methodological challenges of a household survey on the significance of migration and remittances for adaptation in the Hindu Kush region and an econometric study of the aftermath of the 1998 floods in Bangladesh. The second part, “Areas of Concern: Politics and Human Rights”, deepens the analysis of discourses as well as of the implications of proposed and implemented policies. Contributors discuss such topics as environmental migration as a multi-causal problem, climate migration as a consequence in an alarmist discourse and climate migration as a solution. A study of an integrated relocation program in Papua New Guinea is followed by chapters on the promise and the flaws of planned relocation policy, global policy on protection of environmental migrants including both internally displaced peoples and those who cross international borders. A concluding chapter places human agency at centre stage and explores the interplay between human rights, capability and migration.

Author : Andrea Milan,Benjamin Schraven,Koko Warner,Noemi Cascone
Publisher : Springer
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319429229

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Migration, Risk Management and Climate Change: Evidence and Policy Responses by Andrea Milan,Benjamin Schraven,Koko Warner,Noemi Cascone Pdf

This edited volume explores the circumstances under which vulnerable communities can better adapt to climate and environmental change, and focuses in particular on the centrality of migration as a resilience and adaptation strategy for communities at risk. The book features important case studies where migration is being used as a risk management strategy in the Pacific, Sub-Sahara Africa, Latin America, and Europe. Its comparative analysis reveals common patterns in enhancing local resilience through migration across diverse regional, socio-economic, cultural, and political contexts. This book is a contribution to the global discussion about the future of migration policy, especially as climate and environmental change is expected to grow as one of the most pressing challenges of our time.

Author : Benoît Mayer
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-25
Category : Climatic changes
ISBN : 9781786431738

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The Concept of Climate Migration by Benoît Mayer Pdf

This timely book offers a unique interdisciplinary inquiry into the prospects of different political narratives on climate migration. It identifies the essential angles on climate migration – the humanitarian narrative, the migration narrative and the climate change narrative – and assesses their prospects. The author contends that although such arguments will influence global governance, they will not necessarily achieve what advocates hope for. He discusses how the weaknesses of the concept of “climate migration” are likely to be utilized in favour of repressive policies against migration or for the defence of industrial nations against perceived threats from the Third World.

Author : Étienne Piguet,Antoine Pécoud,Paul F. A. Guchteneire
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107014855

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Migration and Climate Change by Étienne Piguet,Antoine Pécoud,Paul F. A. Guchteneire Pdf

This book provides an authoritative analysis of the impact of climate change on migration.

Author : International Court of Justice
Publisher : United Nations
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2008-02-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789213630235

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Migration and Climate Change by International Court of Justice Pdf

This report focuses on the possible future scenarios for climate change, natural disasters and migration and development, looking to increase awareness and find answers to the challenges that lie ahead. It states that even though it is defined as growing crisis, the consequences of climate change for human population are unclear and unpredictable. The study points out that scientific basis for climate change is increasingly well established, and confirms that current predictions as to the “carrying capacity” in large parts of the world will be compromised by climate change.

Author : Dina Ionesco,Daria Mokhnacheva,François Gemenne
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317693109

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The Atlas of Environmental Migration by Dina Ionesco,Daria Mokhnacheva,François Gemenne Pdf

As climate change and extreme weather events increasingly threaten traditional landscapes and livelihoods of entire communities the need to study its impact on human migration and population displacement has never been greater. The Atlas of Environmental Migration is the first illustrated publication mapping this complex phenomenon. It clarifies terminology and concepts, draws a typology of migration related to environment and climate change, describes the multiple factors at play, explains the challenges, and highlights the opportunities related to this phenomenon. Through elaborate maps, diagrams, illustrations, case studies from all over the world based on the most updated international research findings, the Atlas guides the reader from the roots of environmental migration through to governance. In addition to the primary audience of students and scholars of environment studies, climate change, geography and migration it will also be of interest to researchers and students in politics, economics and international relations departments.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : International Organization for Migration (IOM)
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131964095

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Climate Change and Migration by Anonim Pdf

UN publications sales number E.08.III.S.4.Recent empirical studies have found that climate variability and migration are characterized by a non-linear relationship. This study explores the climate change impacts on migratory processes. It outlines the key elements of natural and human induced climate change of potential relevance to migration, discusses the current state of debate about the relationship between climate change and migration, and describes possible approaches and methodologies with which to further our understanding of climate change-related migration.

Author : International Court of Justice
Publisher : United Nations
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789213630259

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Climate Change and Migration by International Court of Justice Pdf

Recent empirical studies have found that climate variability and migration are characterized by a non-linear relationship. This study explores the climate change impacts on migratory processes. It outlines the key elements of natural and human induced climate change of potential relevance to migration, discusses the current state of debate about the relationship between climate change and migration, and describes possible approaches and methodologies with which to further our understanding of climate change-related migration.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 393992363X

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Climate Change, Vulnerability and Human Mobility by Anonim Pdf