Migration, Risk Management and Climate Change: Evidence and Policy Responses

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

AvAndrea Milan,Benjamin Schraven,Koko Warner,Noemi Cascone

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2016-11-21
Mått155 x 235 x 19 mm
Vikt535 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieGlobal Migration Issues
Antal sidor229
Upplaga16001
FörlagSpringer International Publishing AG
ISBN9783319429205

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Introduction – “Climate change and human mobility after Paris“ by Koko Warner.- PART 1 – Mountain areas: Chapter 1 – “An index based assessment of vulnerability to floods in the Upper Indus Sub-Basin: What role for remittances?” by Soumyadeep Banerjee, Muhammad Zubair Anwar, Giovanna Gioli, Suman Bisht, Saleem Abid, Nusrat Habib, Sanjay Sharma, Sabarnee Tuladhar, Azeem Khan.- Chapter 2 – “Role of remittances in building farm assets in the flood affected households in Koshi sub-basin in Nepal” by Soumyadeep Banerjee, Suman Bisht, Bandita Sijapati, Meena Poudel, Dominic Kniveton.- Chapter 3 – “Migration as a Risk Management Strategy in the Context of Climate Change – Evidence from the Bolivian Andes” by Regine Brandt, Raoul Kaenzig and Susanne Lachmuth.- Chapter 4 –“Circular migration and local adaptation in the mountainous community of Las Palomas (Mexico)?” by Noemi Cascone, Ana Elisa Peña del Valle Isla and Andrea Milan.- PART 2 – Low-lying areas: Chapter 5 – “Household adaptation strategies to climate extremes impacts and population dynamics: case study from the Czech Republic” by Robert Stojanov, Barbora Duží, Ilan Kelman, Daniel Němec and David Procházka.- Chapter 6 – “Moving beyond the focus on environmental migration towards recognizing the normality of translocal lives – Insights from Bangladesh” by Benjamin Etzold and Bishawjit Mallick.- PART 3 – Small Islands: Chapter 7 – “Good fishing in Rising Seas: Kandholhudhoo, Dhuvafaaru, and the need for a Development-based Migration Policy in the Maldives” by Andrea Simonelli Chapter 8 – “The reason land matters: relocation as adaptation to climate change in Fiji Islands” by Dalila Gharbaoui and Julia Blocher.- Chapter 9 – “The Role of Remittances in Risk Management and Resilience in Tuvalu: Evidence and potential policy responses” by Sophia Kagan.- PART 4 – Policy: Chapter 10 –“ Remittances for adaptation: an ‘alternative source’ of international climate finance?” by Barbara Bendandi and Pieter Pauw.- Chapter11– Conclusion– “Migration as adaptation: conceptual origins, recent developments, and future directions?” by Robert McLeman.