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Author:   Thomas Faist ,  Jeanette Schade
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   2013 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   4.277kg
ISBN:  

9789400794146

ISBN 10:   9400794142
Pages:   259
Publication Date:   08 February 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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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.

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