Environment, forced migration and social vulnerability: [ ... Conference on Environmental Change, Forced Migration and Social Vulnerability (EFMSV) held in Bonn in October 2008]
Environmentally induced displacement and the 1951 Refugee Convention : pathways to recognition / Bruce Burson -- Institutional barriers to the recognition and assistance of environmentally forced migrants / Chloe Anne Vlassopoulos -- What's in a name : social vulnerabilities and the refugee con...
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| Language: | English |
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Berlin Heidelberg Dordrecht [u.a.]
Springer
2010
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| In: | Year: 2010 |
| Edition: | 1. Aufl. |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Environmental crisis
/ Climatic change
/ International migration
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| Further subjects: | B
Human Beings
Effect of environment on Case studies
B Climatic changes Social aspects Case studies B Forced Migration Environmental aspects B Climatic changes Social aspects B Environmental degradation Social aspects Case studies B Human Beings Effect of environment on B Natural Disasters Social aspects Case studies B Conference program 2008 (Bonn) B Forced Migration Environmental aspects Case studies B Natural Disasters Social aspects B Environmental degradation Social aspects |
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| Summary: | Environmentally induced displacement and the 1951 Refugee Convention : pathways to recognition / Bruce Burson -- Institutional barriers to the recognition and assistance of environmentally forced migrants / Chloe Anne Vlassopoulos -- What's in a name : social vulnerabilities and the refugee controversy in the wake of hurricane Katrina / François Gemenne -- Forced migration from sub-Saharan Africa : the conflict-environment link / Wim Naude -- Solastalgia : environmentally induced distress and migration among Africa's poor due to climate change / Petra Tschakert and Raymond Tutu -- Climate and migration : a synthesis / Etienne Piguet -- Forced migration of Alaskan indigenous communities due to climate change / Robin Bronen -- 'Buscando la vida' : how do perceptions of increasingly dry weather affect migratory behaviour in Zacatecas, Mexico? / Kerstin Schmidt-Verkerk -- Environmental migration from rainfed regions in India forced by poor returns from watershed development projects / Kaushalya Ramachandran and Padmaja Susarla -- Migration to contaminated sites : migrants' settlements in Central and Eastern Europe built-in places with high environmental and social vulnerability / Richard Filčák -- Migration and natural hazards : is relocation a secondary disaster or an opportunity for vulnerability reduction? / Nishara Fernando, Koko Warner and Jörn Birkmann -- Guatemala : a review of historic and recent relocation processes provoked by disasters of natural origin / Yojana Miner Fuentes and Juan Carlos Villagrán de León -- Environmental factors in Mexican migration : the cases of Chiapas and Tlaxcala / Stefan Alscher -- Case study Senegal : environmental degradation and forced migration / Frauke Bleibaum -- The environmental root causes triggering economic migration : the case of Egypt / Tamer Afifi -- A country made for disasters : environmental vulnerability and forced migration in Bangladesh / Alice Poncelet ... [et al.] -- In the land of ostriches : developmentalism, environmental degradation, and forced migration in Turkey / Zeynep Kadirbeyoglu -- Environmental migration : case of Kyrgyzstan / Emil Nasritdinov ... [et al.] -- Linking the earth's future to migration : scenarios of environmental change and possible impacts on forced migration / Johannes Frühmann and Jill Jäger |
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| Item Description: | Literaturangaben |
| ISBN: | 3642124151 |