Migration and displacement in a changing climate / Kelsea Best, Kayly Ober, Robert A. McLeman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Best, Kelsea, 1994- author.

Ober, Kayly, 1986- author.

McLeman, Robert A., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emigration and immigration--Environmental aspects.

Emigration and immigration.

Environmental refugees.

Human beings--Effect of climate on.

Human beings.

Climatic changes--Social aspects.

Climatic changes.

Global environmental change--Social aspects.

Global environmental change.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 324 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2025.

Summary:

This book provides insight into the impact of climate change on human mobility - including both migration and displacement - by synthesizing key concepts, research, methodology, policy, and emerging issues surrounding the topic. It illuminates the connections between climate change and its implications for voluntary migration, involuntary displacement, and immobility by providing examples from around the world. The chapters use the latest findings from the natural and social sciences to identify key interactions shaping current climate-related migration, displacement, and immobility; predict future changes in those patterns and methods used to model them; summarize key policy and governance instruments available to us to manage the movements of people in a changing climate; and offer directions for future research and opportunities. This book will be valuable for students, researchers, and policy makers of geography, environmental science, climate and sustainability studies, demography, sociology, public policy, and political science.

Contents:

People on the move in a changing climate

Migration and displacement associated with extreme weather events : tropical cyclones, severe storms, heavy rainfall events, and flooding

Migration and displacement associated with aridity, drought, heat and wildfires

Migration and displacement risks associated with mean sea level rise

Data and methods for modeling climate-related migration

Policy considerations

Emerging issues and future directions.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-009-44958-3

1-009-44963-X

1-009-44962-1

OCLC:

1509408978