Rising tides : climate refugees in the twenty-first century /

Rising tides : climate refugees in the twenty-first century /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Wennersten, John R., 1941- author.
Imprint:	Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2017.
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 259 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:	English
Subject:	Environmental refugees. Climatic changes -- Social aspects. Global environmental change -- Social aspects. Migration, Internal -- Environmental aspects. Emigration and immigration -- Environmental aspects. Climatic changes -- Social aspects. Emigration and immigration -- Environmental aspects. Environmental refugees. Global environmental change -- Social aspects. Migration, Internal -- Environmental aspects. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Map Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11911260

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Other authors / contributors:	Robbins, Denise (Environmental advocate), author.
ISBN:	9780253025920 0253025923 9780253025937
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references. Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
Summary:	"In the coming decades, rising sea levels, heavier storms, and drought and desertification will force hundreds of millions of people from their homes -- and even their countries. Where will they go? What rights will they have? Who will take care of them? Over 200 million Asians are at risk. Picture shrinking coastlines in Pakistan, India, and China and border skirmishes over access to shared rivers and farmable land. Imagine ocean waves forcing tens of thousands of Pacific and Indian Ocean islanders and more than 100,000 Caribbean islanders to flee. Picture the abandonment of Miami Beach and costal communities up and down the Americas. All this as hundreds of millions become desperate for water as droughts ravage Africa and the Middle East. Rising Tides sounds an alarm over the impending climate refugee crisis and offers a continent-by-continent look at the dangers. John R. Wennersten and Denise Robbins argue that nations must take on the problem together -- it will take solutions beyond the strategic, fiscal, and legal capability of a single country or agency."
Other form:	Print version: Wennersten, John R., 1941- Rising tides. Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, [2017] 9780253025937
Standard no.:	40027269733

Table of Contents:

Seeking shelter from the storm
Refugeedom
What happens when your country drowns?
The crisis hits home : climate refugees in the United States
Latin America : land of rain, land of thirst
Africa : environmental conflicts in a war-torn land
Middle East : the boiling point of climate change and national security
Asia : the looming crisis
Current affairs and climate refugees
The shape of things to come.