Climate and Human Migration
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Climate and Human Migration

Past Experiences, Future Challenges

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eBook - PDF

Climate and Human Migration

Past Experiences, Future Challenges

About this book

Studies warn that global warming and sea level rise will create hundreds of millions of environmental refugees. While climate change will undoubtedly affect future migration patterns and behavior, the potential outcomes are more complex than the environmental refugee scenario suggests. This book provides a comprehensive review of how physical and human processes interact to shape migration, using simple diagrams and models to guide the researcher, policy maker and advanced student through the climate-migration process. The book applies standard concepts and theories used in climate and migration scholarship to explain how events such as Hurricane Katrina, the Dust Bowl, African droughts, and floods in Bangladesh and China have triggered migrations that haven't always fit the environmental refugee storyline. Lessons from past migrations are used to predict how future migration patterns will unfold in the face of sea level rise, food insecurity, political instability, and to review options for policy makers.

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Information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9781107022652
eBook ISBN
9781107596153
Topic
Law
Subtopic
Environmental Law
Index
Law

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Climate and Human Migration
  3. Review
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Figures
  9. Tables
  10. Preface
  11. Acknowledgments
  12. 1 An Introduction to the Study of Climate and Migration
  13. 2 Why People Migrate
  14. 3 Migration in the Context of Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climatic Variability and Change
  15. 4 Extreme Weather Events and Migration
  16. 5 River Valley Flooding and Migration
  17. 6 Drought and Its Influence on Migration
  18. 7 Mean Sea Level Rise and Its Implications for Migration and Migration Policy
  19. 8 Emergent Issues in Climate and Migration Research
  20. Annex :Estimates of Global Population Exposed to Tropical Cyclones
  21. References
  22. Index