Environment, Forced Migration and Social Vulnerability

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2014-10-12
Mått155 x 235 x 18 mm
Vikt464 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor271
Upplaga2010
FörlagSpringer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
ISBN9783642437199

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Defining the Terms: Introduction.- Environmentally Induced Displacement and the 1951 Refugee Convention: Pathways to Recognition.- Institutional Barriers to the Recognition and Assistance of Environmentally Forced Migrants.- What’s in a Name: Social Vulnerabilities and the Refugee Controversy in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina.- Approaches for the Study of Forced Migration.- Forced Migration from Sub-Saharan Africa: The Conflict–Environment Link.- Solastalgia: Environmentally Induced Distress and Migration Among Africa’s Poor Due to Climate Change.- Climate Change and Migration.- Climate and Migration: A Synthesis.- Forced Migration of Alaskan Indigenous Communities Due to Climate Change.- ‘Buscando la vida’ – How Do Perceptions of Increasingly Dry Weather Affect Migratory Behaviour in Zacatecas, Mexico?.- Migration and Other Forms of Environmental Degradation.- Environmental Migration from Rainfed Regions in India Forced by Poor Returns from Watershed Development Projects.- Migration to Contaminated Sites: Migrants’ Settlements in Central and Eastern Europe Built in Places with High Environmental and Social Vulnerability.- Migration and Natural Hazards: Is Relocation a Secondary Disaster or an Opportunity for Vulnerability Reduction?.- Guatemala: A Review of Historic and Recent Relocation Processes Provoked by Disasters of Natural Origin.- EACH FOR Case Studies and Scenarios.- Environmental Factors in Mexican Migration: The Cases of Chiapas and Tlaxcala.- Case Study Senegal: Environmental Degradation and Forced Migration.- The Environmental Root Causes Triggering Economic Migration: The Case of Egypt.- A Country Made for Disasters: Environmental Vulnerability and Forced Migration in Bangladesh.- In the Land of Ostriches: Developmentalism, EnvironmentalDegradation, and Forced Migration in Turkey.- Environmental Migration: Case of Kyrgyzstan.- Linking the Earth’s Future to Migration: Scenarios of Environmental Change and Possible Impacts on Forced Migration.

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