Environment, Forced Migration and Social Vulnerability (Record no. 112070)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9783642124167
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Standard number or code 10.1007/978-3-642-12416-7
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Classification number QC902.8-903.2
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Subject category code SCI026000
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Subject category code SCI042000
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082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 577.27
Edition number 23
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Afifi, Tamer.
Relator term editor.
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Title Environment, Forced Migration and Social Vulnerability
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Statement of responsibility, etc edited by Tamer Afifi, Jill Jäger.
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-- 2010.
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Extent XV, 210p.
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Formatted contents note Defining the Terms: Introduction -- Environmentally Induced Displacement and the 1951 Refugee Convention: Pathways to Recognition -- Institutional Barriers to the Recognition and Assistance of Environmentally Forced Migrants -- What’s in a Name: Social Vulnerabilities and the Refugee Controversy in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina -- Approaches for the Study of Forced Migration -- Forced Migration from Sub-Saharan Africa: The Conflict–Environment Link -- Solastalgia: Environmentally Induced Distress and Migration Among Africa’s Poor Due to Climate Change -- Climate Change and Migration -- Climate and Migration: A Synthesis -- Forced Migration of Alaskan Indigenous Communities Due to Climate Change -- ‘Buscando la vida’ – How Do Perceptions of Increasingly Dry Weather Affect Migratory Behaviour in Zacatecas, Mexico? -- Migration and Other Forms of Environmental Degradation -- Environmental Migration from Rainfed Regions in India Forced by Poor Returns from Watershed Development Projects -- Migration to Contaminated Sites: Migrants’ Settlements in Central and Eastern Europe Built in Places with High Environmental and Social Vulnerability -- Migration and Natural Hazards: Is Relocation a Secondary Disaster or an Opportunity for Vulnerability Reduction? -- Guatemala: A Review of Historic and Recent Relocation Processes Provoked by Disasters of Natural Origin -- EACH FOR Case Studies and Scenarios -- Environmental Factors in Mexican Migration: The Cases of Chiapas and Tlaxcala -- Case Study Senegal: Environmental Degradation and Forced Migration -- The Environmental Root Causes Triggering Economic Migration: The Case of Egypt -- A Country Made for Disasters: Environmental Vulnerability and Forced Migration in Bangladesh -- In the Land of Ostriches: Developmentalism, Environmental Degradation, and Forced Migration in Turkey -- Environmental Migration: Case of Kyrgyzstan -- Linking the Earth’s Future to Migration: Scenarios of Environmental Change and Possible Impacts on Forced Migration.
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Summary, etc This book examines the linkages between environmental change and forced migration. This has been a headline topic during the past few years with predictions of “millions of refugees”. It presents case studies from across the world of responses to climate change as well as other environmental changes and examines the role that environmental change plays among the other factors that lead to a decision to migrate.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Environmental sciences.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Climatic changes.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Migration.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Environment.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Climate Change.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Migration.
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Personal name Jäger, Jill.
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Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element SpringerLink (Online service)
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Title Springer eBooks
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Display text Printed edition:
International Standard Book Number 9783642124150
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Uniform Resource Identifier http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12416-7
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