Environment Forced Migration And Social Vulnerability

Author : Tamer Afifi,Jill Jäger
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 45,8 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 : Tamer Afifi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3939923184

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Environment, forced migration & social vulnerability by Tamer Afifi Pdf

Author : Michelle Leighton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3939923559

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Climate Change and Social Vulnerability: Improving Global Protection of Forced Migrants and Displaced Persons by Michelle Leighton Pdf

Author : Thomas Faist,Jeanette Schade
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,9 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 : S. Irudaya Rajan,R. B. Bhagat
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 53,5 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 : Robert McLeman,Jeanette Schade,Thomas Faist
Publisher : Springer
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319257969

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Environmental Migration and Social Inequality by Robert McLeman,Jeanette Schade,Thomas Faist Pdf

This book presents contributions from leading international scholars on how environmental migration is both a cause and an outcome of social and economic inequality. It describes recent theoretical, methodological, empirical, and legal developments in the dynamic field of environmental migration research, and includes original research on environmental migration in Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, China, Ghana, Haiti, Mexico, and Turkey. The authors consider the implications of sea level rise for small island states and discuss translocality, gender relations, social remittances, and other concepts important for understanding how vulnerability to environmental change leads to mobility, migration, and the creation of immobile, trapped populations. Reflecting leading-edge developments, this book appeals to advanced undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, and policymakers.

Author : Étienne Piguet,Antoine Pécoud,Paul F. A. Guchteneire
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 48,9 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 : Anthony Oliver-Smith,Xiaomeng Shen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3939923257

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Linking Environmental Change, Migration and Social Vulnerability by Anthony Oliver-Smith,Xiaomeng Shen Pdf

Author : Dina Ionesco,Daria Mokhnacheva,François Gemenne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317693093

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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 : Graeme Hugo,International Organization for Migration
Publisher : Iom Migration Research
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132375663

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Migration, Development and Environment by Graeme Hugo,International Organization for Migration Pdf

Environment and international migration and their relationship with development are among the most pressing issues on the contemporary global agenda. They have been the focus of major international attention recently with the release of the Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC 2007) and the holding of the first Global Forum on Migration and Development in Belgium in July 2007. Despite the enhanced profile of environment amd migration and their relationship with development, little of this increased attention has been concerned with the complex and multidirectional relationships between them. In both research and policy, environment and international migration's linkages with economic development have evolved separately. Yet it is apparent that their interrelationships are of considerable significance for understanding social, economic and environmental change and for developing effective interventions to reduce poverty and move toward sustainability. This paper explores the conceptual framework of the interrelationships between migration, environment and development through an analysis of the current literature. It offers an in depth analysis of the various permutations of this relationship: a) environment as a cause of migration, in particular environmental disasters and environmental degradation; b) climate change and migration; c) displacement by large projects; d) impacts of migration on destination environments. The implications these have for policy are considered.

Author : Frank Laczko,Christine Aghazarm
Publisher : UN
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 50,9 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 : Krieger, Tim,Panke, Diana
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781529202182

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Environmental Conflicts, Migration and Governance by Krieger, Tim,Panke, Diana Pdf

The globalized era is characterized by a high degree of interconnectedness across borders and continents and this includes human migration. Migration flows have led to new governance challenges and, at times, populist political backlashes. A key driver of migration is environmental conflict and this is only likely to increase with the effects of climate change. Bringing together world-leading researchers from across political science, environmental studies, economics and sociology, this urgent book uses a multifaceted theoretical and methodological approach to delve into core questions and concerns surrounding migration, climate change and conflict, providing invaluable insights into one of the most pressing global issues of our time.

Author : Kerstin Rosenow-Williams,François Gemenne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317380276

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Organizational Perspectives on Environmental Migration by Kerstin Rosenow-Williams,François Gemenne Pdf

Over the past decade, international organizations (IOs) and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have increasingly focused their efforts on the plight of environmental migrants in both industrialized and developing countries. However, to date very few studies have analysed the influence and rhetoric of advocacy groups in the debates on environmental migration. Organizational Perspectives on Environmental Migration fills this lacuna by drawing together and examining the related themes of climate change and environmental degradation, migration and organizational studies to provide a fresh perspective on their increasing relevance. In order to assess the role of IOs and NGOs in the environmental migration discourse and to understand their interaction and their ways of addressing the topic, the book contains a wide-range of contributions covering the perspectives of organizational sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, geographers, lawyers and practitioners. The chapters are organized thematically around the perspectives of key actors in the area of environmental migration, including IOs, courts and advocacy groups. The geographically diverse and interdisciplinary range of contributions makes this volume an essential foundational text for organizational responses to environmental migration. This volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of migration studies, international relations, organizational sociology, refugee law and policy, and development studies.

Author : Kirsten Hastrup,Karen Fog Olwig
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781139561242

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Climate Change and Human Mobility by Kirsten Hastrup,Karen Fog Olwig Pdf

'The greatest single impact of climate change could be on human migration', stated the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 1990. Since then there has been considerable concern about the large-scale population movements that might take place because of climate change. This book examines emerging patterns of human mobility in relation to climate change, drawing on a multidisciplinary approach, including anthropology and geography. It addresses both larger, general questions and concrete local cases, where the link between climate change and human mobility is manifest and demands attention - empirically, analytically and conceptually. Among the cases explored are both historical and contemporary instances of migration in response to climate change, and together they illustrate the necessity of analyzing new patterns of movement, historic cultural images and regulation practices in the wake of new global processes.