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Environment, forced migration and social vulnerability / Tamer Afifi, Jill Jäger, editors.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Heidelberg ; Dordrecht ; London ; New York : Springer, c2010.Description: xv, 271 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9783642124150 (hardback)
  • 9783642124167 (e-isbn)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 304.25 22
LOC classification:
  • GF51 .E65 2010
Other classification:
  • 300
Contents:
Environmentally induced displacement and the 1951 Refugee Convention : pathways to recognition / Bruce Burson -- Institutional barriers to the recognition and assistance of environmentally forced migrants / Chloe Anne Vlassopoulos -- What's in a name : social vulnerabilities and the refugee controversy in the wake of hurricane Katrina / François Gemenne -- Forced migration from sub-Saharan Africa : the conflict-environment link / Wim Naude -- Solastalgia : environmentally induced distress and migration among Africa's poor due to climate change / Petra Tschakert and Raymond Tutu -- Climate and migration : a synthesis / Etienne Piguet -- Forced migration of Alaskan indigenous communities due to climate change / Robin Bronen -- 'Buscando la vida' : how do perceptions of increasingly dry weather affect migratory behaviour in Zacatecas, Mexico? / Kerstin Schmidt-Verkerk -- Environmental migration from rainfed regions in India forced by poor returns from watershed development projects / Kaushalya Ramachandran and Padmaja Susarla -- Migration to contaminated sites : migrants' settlements in Central and Eastern Europe built-in places with high environmental and social vulnerability / Richard Filčák -- Migration and natural hazards : is relocation a secondary disaster or an opportunity for vulnerability reduction? / Nishara Fernando, Koko Warner and Jörn Birkmann -- Guatemala : a review of historic and recent relocation processes provoked by disasters of natural origin / Yojana Miner Fuentes and Juan Carlos Villagrán de León -- Environmental factors in Mexican migration : the cases of Chiapas and Tlaxcala / Stefan Alscher -- Case study Senegal : environmental degradation and forced migration / Frauke Bleibaum -- The environmental root causes triggering economic migration : the case of Egypt / Tamer Afifi -- A country made for disasters : environmental vulnerability and forced migration in Bangladesh / Alice Poncelet ... [et al.] -- In the land of ostriches : developmentalism, environmental degradation, and forced migration in Turkey / Zeynep Kadirbeyoglu -- Environmental migration : case of Kyrgyzstan / Emil Nasritdinov ... [et al.] -- Linking the earth's future to migration : scenarios of environmental change and possible impacts on forced migration / Johannes Frühmann and Jill Jäger.
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Papers presented at a conference of the same name, held in Bonn in Oct. 2008. Cf. foreword.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Environmentally induced displacement and the 1951 Refugee Convention : pathways to recognition / Bruce Burson -- Institutional barriers to the recognition and assistance of environmentally forced migrants / Chloe Anne Vlassopoulos -- What's in a name : social vulnerabilities and the refugee controversy in the wake of hurricane Katrina / François Gemenne -- Forced migration from sub-Saharan Africa : the conflict-environment link / Wim Naude -- Solastalgia : environmentally induced distress and migration among Africa's poor due to climate change / Petra Tschakert and Raymond Tutu -- Climate and migration : a synthesis / Etienne Piguet -- Forced migration of Alaskan indigenous communities due to climate change / Robin Bronen -- 'Buscando la vida' : how do perceptions of increasingly dry weather affect migratory behaviour in Zacatecas, Mexico? / Kerstin Schmidt-Verkerk -- Environmental migration from rainfed regions in India forced by poor returns from watershed development projects / Kaushalya Ramachandran and Padmaja Susarla -- Migration to contaminated sites : migrants' settlements in Central and Eastern Europe built-in places with high environmental and social vulnerability / Richard Filčák -- Migration and natural hazards : is relocation a secondary disaster or an opportunity for vulnerability reduction? / Nishara Fernando, Koko Warner and Jörn Birkmann -- Guatemala : a review of historic and recent relocation processes provoked by disasters of natural origin / Yojana Miner Fuentes and Juan Carlos Villagrán de León -- Environmental factors in Mexican migration : the cases of Chiapas and Tlaxcala / Stefan Alscher -- Case study Senegal : environmental degradation and forced migration / Frauke Bleibaum -- The environmental root causes triggering economic migration : the case of Egypt / Tamer Afifi -- A country made for disasters : environmental vulnerability and forced migration in Bangladesh / Alice Poncelet ... [et al.] -- In the land of ostriches : developmentalism, environmental degradation, and forced migration in Turkey / Zeynep Kadirbeyoglu -- Environmental migration : case of Kyrgyzstan / Emil Nasritdinov ... [et al.] -- Linking the earth's future to migration : scenarios of environmental change and possible impacts on forced migration / Johannes Frühmann and Jill Jäger.

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