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Climate change and displacement : multidisciplinary perspectives /

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 c...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: McAdam, Jane, 1974-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Hart Pub., 2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 / Jane McAdam
  • 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.