Environment, Forced Migration and Social Vulnerability /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Afifi, Tamer. (Editor ), Jäger, Jill. (Editor )
Formato: eBook
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
Edición:1st ed. 2010.
Materias:
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.