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Disentangling Migration and Climate Change
. Ed(S): Faist, Thomas; Schade, Jeanette
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Description for Disentangling Migration and Climate Change
Hardback. This book examines the inter-relationship between climate change and migration. It focuses on planned relocation as a policy response to environmentally induced forced migration and analyzes human rights to protect people threatened by environmental change. Editor(s): Faist, Thomas; Schade, Jeanette. Num Pages: 259 pages, 18 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: JPA; JPVH; KCH; RNPG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 245 x 17. Weight in Grams: 536.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
259
Condition
New
Number of Pages
259
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789400762077
SKU
V9789400762077
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Ref
99-15
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