Environmental Migration and Social Inequality

This book presents contributions from leading international scholars on how environmental migration is both a cause and an outcome of social and economic inequality. It describes recent theoretical, methodological, empirical, and legal developments in the dynamic field of environmental migration res...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: McLeman, Robert (Editor ), Schade, Jeanette (Editor ), Faist, Thomas (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Edición:1st ed. 2016.
Colección:Advances in Global Change Research, 61
Temas:
Environment.
Environmental Sciences.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction:  Environment, Migration, and Inequality - A Complex Dynamic
  • 2. Rainfall Variability, Hunger, and Social Inequality, and Their Relative Influences on Migration: Evidence from Bangladesh
  • 3. Shifting Rainfalls, Shifting Livelihoods: Seasonal Migration, Food Security and Social Inequality in Northern Ghana
  • 4. Social and Spatial Inequality Linked to Flood-Induced Displacements in Burkina Faso in 2009 and 2010
  • 5. Exploring the Relationship between Social Inequality and Environmentally-induced Migration: Evidence from Urban Household Surveys in Shanghai and Nanjing of China
  • 6. Drought, Social Inequalities, Adaptation, and Farmers' Mobility in the Konya Plain of Turkey
  • 7. Environmental Influences on Haitian Migration to Canada and Connections to Social Inequality: Evidence from Ottawa-Gatineau and Montreal
  • 8. Social Inequality and International Migration Related to Climate Stressors: The Case of Mexico Kerstin Schmidt
  • 9. Hidden in Plain Sight: Social Inequalities in the Context of Environmental Change
  • 10. Migration, Environment and Inequality: Perspectives of a Political Ecology of Translocal Relations
  • 11. Framing Labour Mobility Options in Small Island States Affected by Environmental Changes
  • 12. The Arbitrary Project of Protecting Environmental Migrants
  • 13. Conclusion: Inequality and Migration as Adaptation - Where do we go from here?
  • Afterword: Social Inequality and Justice Triggered by the Anthropocene: An historical view
  • Index.

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