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

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Faist, Thomas. (Editor), Schade, Jeanette. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Environmental sciences.; Climatic changes.; Migration.; Human Geography.; Environment.; Climate Change.; Climate Change Management and Policy.; Human Rights.; Political Science, general.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6208-4

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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.