Climate Change, Vulnerability and Migration

S. Irudaya Rajan, R. B. Bhagat

• Publisher: Routledge India
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9781138106345
• eBook ISBN: 9781351375573
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Ecology
• Index: Social Sciences

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Dedication
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of illustrations
• Notes on contributors
• Preface and acknowledgements
• 1 Migration in the context of climate change: an introduction
• 2 Climate change, vulnerability and migration in India: overlapping hotspots
• 3 Migrating to adapt? Exploring the climate change, migration and adaptation nexus
• 4 Exploring vulnerability in flood-affected remittance-recipient and non-recipient households of upper Assam in India
• 5 Institutional response to displacement due to chronic disasters: the art of muddling through
• 6 Remittances as self-insured life: on migration, flood and conflict in North-Western Pakistan
• 7 Situating migration in planned and autonomous adaptation practices to climate change in Bangladesh
• 8 Migration in response to environmental change: a risk perception study from Sundarban Biosphere Reserve
• 9 Gender processes in rural outmigration and socioeconomic development in the Himalaya
• 10 Climate change, drought and vulnerability: a historical narrative approach to migration from Western Odisha, India
• 11 Dynamics of distress seasonal migration: a study of a drought-prone Mahabubnagar district in Telangana
• 12 Seasonal migration from dry climatic zone: a case of rural Maharashtra
• 13 Migrant ecology
• 14 Spaces of recognition of climate migrants in India: question of rights and responsibilities
• Index