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Migration and environmental change in the West African Sahel : why capabilities and aspirations matter / Victoria van der Land.
Van Pelt Library JV9020.15 .L36 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Land, Victoria van der, author.
- Series:
- Routledge studies in environmental migration, displacement and resettlement
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sustainable development.
- Capabilities approach (Social sciences).
- Climatic changes--Social aspects.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Africa, West--Emigration and immigration.
- Africa, West.
- Climatic changes--Social aspects--Sahel.
- Climatic changes.
- Capabilities approach (Social sciences)--Africa, West.
- Sustainable development--Sahel.
- Africa--Sahel.
- West Africa.
- Physical Description:
- 138 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Climate change, environment and migration
- Livelihoods, environmental stress and mobility in Mali and Senegal
- Theoretical perspectives on the environment-migration nexus
- The role of environmental factors in shaping migration
- The migration decision: capabilities matter
- Aspirations for a better life
- Social transformation and its impact on the effects of of climate change on migration
- A migrant typology
- Migration in the "global North" and the "global South"
- Conclusion and outlook: Rethinking migration and environmental change in the West African Sahel.
- Notes:
- "Earthscan from Routledge"--Front cover.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781138217522
- 1138217522
- OCLC:
- 975368943
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