Climate change and displacement : multidisciplinary perspectives / edited by Jane McAdam.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McAdam, Jane, 1974- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes--Social aspects.

Climatic changes.

Environmental refugees.

Forced migration.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (274 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Portland, Oregon : Hart Publishing, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Environmental migration is not new. Nevertheless, the events and processes accompanying global climate change threaten to increase human movement both within states and across international borders. The Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change has predicted an increased frequency and severity of climate events such as storms, cyclones and hurricanes, as well as longer-term sea level rise and desertification, which will impact upon people's ability to survive in certain parts of the world. This book brings together a variety of disciplinary perspectives on the phenomenon of climate-induced displacement. With chapters by leading scholars in their field, it collects in one place a rigorous, holistic analysis of the phenomenon, which can better inform academic understanding and policy development alike. Governments have not been prepared to take a leading role in developing responses to the issue, in large part due to the absence of strong theoretical frameworks from which sound policy can be constructed. The specialist expertise of the authors in this book means that each chapter identifies key issues that need to be considered in shaping domestic, regional and international responses, including the complex causes of movement, the conceptualisation of migration responses to climate change, the terminology that should be used to describe those who move, and attitudes to migration that may affect decisions to stay or leave. The book will help to facilitate the creation of principled, research-based responses, and establish climate-induced displacement as an important aspect of both the climate change and global migration debates

Contents:

Introduction

Jane McAdam

Climate change-induced mobility and the existing migration regime in Asia and the Pacific

Graeme Hugo

Migration as adaptation : opportunities and limits

Jon Barnett and Michael Webber

Climate-induced community relocation in the Pacific : the meaning and importance of land

John Campbell

Conceptualising climate-induced displacement

Walter Kalin

Disappearing states, statelessness and the boundaries of international law

Protecting people displaced by climate change : some conceptual challenges

Roger Zetter

International ethical responsibilities to climate change refugees

Peter Penz

Climate migration and climate migrants : what threat, whose security?

Lorraine Elliott

Climate-related displacement : health risks and responses

Anthony J McMichael, Celia E McMichael, Helen L Berry and Kathryn Bowen

Climate change, human movement and the promotion of mental health : what have we learnt from earlier global stressors?

Maryanne Loughry

Afterword : What now? : climate-induced displacement after Copenhagen

Stephen Castles.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613017079

9781472565211

1472565215

9781283017077

1283017075

9781847316004

184731600X

OCLC:

707067713