Living with floods in a mobile Southeast Asia : a political ecology of vulnerability, migration and environmental change / edited by Carl Middleton, Rebecca Elmhirst and Supang Chantavanich.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Middleton, Carl, editor.

Elmhirst, Rebecca, editor.

Suphāng Čhanthawānit, editor.

Series:

Routledge studies in development, mobilities, and migration

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Migration, Internal--Environmental aspects.

Migration, Internal.

Floods.

Environmental conditions.

Southeast Asia--Environmental conditions.

Southeast Asia.

Floods--Southeast Asia.

Migration, Internal--Environmental aspects--Southeast Asia.

Physical Description:

xiii, 201 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.

Summary:

"This book contributes to a better understanding of the relationship between migration, vulnerability, resilience and social justice associated with flooding across diverse environmental, social and policy contexts in Southeast Asia. It challenges simple analyses of flooding as a singular driver of migration, and instead considers the ways in which floods figure in migration-based livelihoods and amongst already mobile populations. Developing a conceptual framework based on a 'mobile political ecology' the authors pay particular attention to the multidimensionality, temporalities and geographies of vulnerability. The focus is on identifying the environmental, social, institutional and political factors that produce and perpetuate vulnerabilities that provide context to capacities (or lack thereof) of individuals and households. These include: the sociopolitical dynamics of floods, flood hazards and risky environments, the characteristics of migration and migrant-based livelihoods and the policy environments through which these take shape. Organised around a series of eight empirical urban and rural case studies in Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam, where lives are marked by mobility and by floods associated with the region's monsoonal climate, the book concludes by synthesising the insights of the case studies, and suggests future policy directions. Together, the chapters highlight critical policy questions around the governance of migration, institutionalised disaster response strategies and broader development agendas."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Migration and floods in Southeast Asia : a mobile political ecology of vulnerability, resilience and social justice / Rebecca Elmhirst, Carl Middleton and Bernadette P. Resurrección

Living with the flood : a political ecology of fishing, farming, and migration around Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia / Carl Middleton and Borin Un

Migrants seeking out and living with floods : a case study of Mingalar Kwet Thet settlement, Yangon, Myanmar / Maxime Boutry

Risky spaces, vulnerable households, and mobile lives in Laos : quo vadis flooding and migration? / Albert Salamanca, Outhai Soukkhy, Joshua Rigg and Jacqueline Ernerot

Living with and against floods in Bangkok and Thailand's Central Plain / Naruemon Thabchumpon and Narumon Arunotai

Generating vulnerability to floods : poor urban migrants and the state in metro Manila, Philippines / Edsel E. Sajor, Bernadette P. Resurrección and Sharon Felizia Ann P. Macagba

Responses to flooding : migrants' perspectives in Hanoi, Vietnam

Nguyen Tuan Anh and Pham Quang Minh

Flooding in a city of migrants : ethnicity and entitlement in Bandar Lampung, Indonesia / Rebecca Elmhirst and Ari Darmastuti

Vulnerabilities of local people and migrants due to flooding in Malaysia : identifying gaps for better management / Mohammad Imam Hasan Reza, Er Ah Choy and Joy Jacqueline Pereira

Floods and migrants : synthesis and implications for policy / Louis Lebel, Supang Chantavanich and Werasit Sittitrai.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138793248

1138793248

OCLC:

1011660397