Disentangling migration and climate change : methodologies, political discourses and human rights /

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Imprint:Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, c2013.
Description:1 online resource.
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9851063
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Other authors / contributors:Faist, Thomas.
Schade, Jeanette.
ISBN:9789400762084 (electronic bk.)
9400762089 (electronic bk.)
9789400762077
Notes:Includes index.
Summary:This book addresses environmental and climate change induced migration from the vantage point of migration studies, offering a broad spectrum of approaches for considering the environment/climate/migration nexus. Research on the subject is still frequently narrowed down to climate change vulnerability and the environmental push factor. The book establishes the interconnections between societal and environmental vulnerability, and migration and capability, allowing appreciation of migration in the frame of climate as a case of spatial and social mobility, that is, as a strategy of persons and g