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Environmental Migration and Social Inequality

By Robert McLeman , Jeanette Schade , Thomas Faist (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Year
2016
ISBN
978-3-319-25794-5, 978-3-319-25796-9
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-25796-9
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (3866568 bytes)
Series
Advances in Global Change Research 61
Edition
1
Pages
XIV, 237\240
Topic
Biology Ecology
Time added
2016-03-14 21:35:01
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Description

This book presents contributions from leading international scholars on how environmental migration is both a cause and an outcome of social and economic inequality. It describes recent theoretical, methodological, empirical, and legal developments in the dynamic field of environmental migration research, and includes original research on environmental migration in Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, China, Ghana, Haiti, Mexico, and Turkey. The authors consider the implications of sea level rise for small island states and discuss translocality, gender relations, social remittances, and other concepts important for understanding how vulnerability to environmental change leads to mobility, migration, and the creation of immobile, trapped populations. Reflecting leading-edge developments, this book appeals to advanced undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, and policymakers.

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