Disentangling Migration And Climate Change

Author : Thomas Faist
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400762089
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disentangling Migration and Climate Change written by Thomas Faist and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Thomas Faist
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9789400762091
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disentangling Migration and Climate Change written by Thomas Faist and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-05-17 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Étienne Piguet
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107014859
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Migration and Climate Change written by Étienne Piguet and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-23 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an authoritative analysis of the impact of climate change on migration.

Author : Benoît Mayer
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786431734
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Concept of Climate Migration written by Benoît Mayer and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-25 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Jane McAdam
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 184731600X
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Climate Change and Displacement written by Jane McAdam and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-09-06 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental migration is not new. Nevertheless, the events and processes accompanying global climate change threaten to increase human movement both within states and across international borders. The Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change has predicted an increased frequency and severity of climate events such as storms, cyclones and hurricanes, as well as longer-term sea level rise and desertification, which will impact upon people's ability to survive in certain parts of the world. This book brings together a variety of disciplinary perspectives on the phenomenon of climate-induced displacement. With chapters by leading scholars in their field, it collects in one place a rigorous, holistic analysis of the phenomenon, which can better inform academic understanding and policy development alike. Governments have not been prepared to take a leading role in developing responses to the issue, in large part due to the absence of strong theoretical frameworks from which sound policy can be constructed. The specialist expertise of the authors in this book means that each chapter identifies key issues that need to be considered in shaping domestic, regional and international responses, including the complex causes of movement, the conceptualisation of migration responses to climate change, the terminology that should be used to describe those who move, and attitudes to migration that may affect decisions to stay or leave. The book will help to facilitate the creation of principled, research-based responses, and establish climate-induced displacement as an important aspect of both the climate change and global migration debates.

Author : Frank Laczko
Publisher : UN
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Migration, Environment and Climate Change written by Frank Laczko and published by UN. This book was released on 2009 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1785366599
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Research Handbook on Climate Change, Migration and the Law written by Benoît Maye and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-27 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : International Court of Justice
Publisher : United Nations
ISBN 13 : 9213630255
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Climate Change and Migration written by International Court of Justice and published by United Nations. This book was released on 2008-10-05 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 9213630239
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Migration and Climate Change written by International Court of Justice and published by United Nations. This book was released on 2008-02-22 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : S. Irudaya Rajan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351375571
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Climate Change, Vulnerability and Migration written by S. Irudaya Rajan and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-09-22 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.