Disentangling Migration and Climate Change Methodologies, Political Discourses and Human Rights /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Faist, Thomas (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Schade, Jeanette (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Θέματα: Environment.; Climate change.; Political science.; Human rights.; Emigration and immigration.; Human geography.; Climate Change.; Climate Change Management and Policy.; Migration.; Human Rights.; Human Geography.; Political Science.

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 vulnerabili...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction: The climate-migration nexus: A reorientation
• Part one: Methodologies and Methods
• 2. Migration and climate change: Toward an integrated assessment of sensitivity
• 3. How demographic change and migration influence community-level adaptation to climate change: Examples from rural eastern Ontario and Nunavut, Canada
• 4. A methodology for assessing patterns of labour migration in mountain communities exposed to water hazards
• 5. Which household characteristics help mitigate the effects of extreme weather events? Evidence from the 1998 floods in Bangladesh
• Part two: Areas of concern: Politics and human rights
• 6. Defining environmental migration in the climate change era: Problem, consequence or solution?
• 7. Challenges and pitfalls of resettlement - Pacific experiences
• 8. Climate change and planned relocation: Risks and a proposal for safeguards
• 9. Disasters, displacement and protection: Challenges, shortcomings and ways forward
• Conclusion
• 10. Entitlements, capabilities and human rights
• Annex
• Index.