Environment, Forced Migration and Social Vulnerability - Afifi, Tamer; Jäger, Jill.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2010)
Defining the Terms: Introduction -- Environmentally Induced Displacement and the 1951 Refugee Convention: Pathways to Recognition -- Institutional Barriers to the Recognition and Assistance of Environmentally Forced Migrants -- What's in a Name: Social Vulnerabilities and the Refugee Controversy in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina -- Approaches for the Study of Forced Migration -- Forced Migration from Sub-Saharan Africa: The Conflict-Environment Link -- Solastalgia: Environmentally Induced Distress and Migration Among Africa's Poor Due to Climate Change -- Climate Change and Migration -- Climate and Migration: A Synthesis -- Forced Migration of Alaskan Indigenous Communities Due to Climate Change -- 'Buscando la vida' - How Do Perceptions of Increasingly Dry Weather Affect Migratory Behaviour in Zacatecas, Mexico? -- Migration and Other Forms of Environmental Degradation -- Environmental Migration from Rainfed Regions in India Forced by Poor Returns from Watershed Development Projects -- Migration to Contaminated Sites: Migrants' Settlements in Central and Eastern Europe Built in Places with High Environmental and Social Vulnerability -- Migration and Natural Hazards: Is Relocation a Secondary Disaster or an Opportunity for Vulnerability Reduction? -- Guatemala: A Review of Historic and Recent Relocation Processes Provoked by Disasters of Natural Origin -- EACH FOR Case Studies and Scenarios -- Environmental Factors in Mexican Migration: The Cases of Chiapas and Tlaxcala -- Case Study Senegal: Environmental Degradation and Forced Migration -- The Environmental Root Causes Triggering Economic Migration: The Case of Egypt -- A Country Made for Disasters: Environmental Vulnerability and Forced Migration in Bangladesh -- In the Land of Ostriches: Developmentalism, Environmental Degradation, and Forced Migration in Turkey -- Environmental Migration: Case of Kyrgyzstan -- Linking the Earth's Future to Migration: Scenarios of Environmental Change and Possible Impacts on Forced Migration.
Keywords: Climatic changes; Migration; Climate Change; Migration