Migration and Climate Change

This book provides an authoritative analysis of the impact of climate change on migration.

Étienne Piguet (Edited by), Antoine Pécoud (Edited by), Paul de Guchteneire (Edited by)

9781107662254, UNESCO

Paperback / softback, published 23 June 2011

464 pages, 11 b/w illus. 11 tables
22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.73 kg

'This edited volume brings together some of the leading authors working on the relationship between climate-driven environmental change and human mobility. In so doing, it presents a comprehensive overview of a body of knowledge which, until now, has remained fragmented and debated.' James Morrissey, Journal of Refugee Studies

Migration and Climate Change provides an authoritative overview of the relationship between climate change and migration. It brings together both case studies and syntheses from different parts of the world and critically discusses empirical evidence, methodological challenges, conceptual gaps, policy responses, and normative issues. The book constitutes a unique and thorough introduction to one of the most discussed but least understood consequences of climate change and brings together experts from a wide range of disciplines, including anthropology, climatology, demography, geography, law, political science and sociology.

1. Introduction: migration and climate change Etienne Piguet, Antoine Pécoud and Paul de Guchteneire
Part I. Evidence on the Migration-Climate Change Relationship: 2. The main climate change forecasts that might cause human displacements Martine Rebetez
3. Climate change, migration and health in Brazil Alisson Flávio Barbieri and Ulisses E. C. Confalonieri
4. Environmental degradation and out-migration: evidence from Nepal Pratikshya Bohra-Mishra and Douglas S. Massey
5. Refusing 'refugee' in the Pacific: (de)constructing climate-induced displacement in international law Jane McAdam
6. Critical views on the relationship between climate change and migration: some insights from the experience of Bangladesh Allan Findlay and Alistair Geddes
7. Sea level rise, local vulnerability and involuntary migration Anthony Oliver-Smith
8. Environmental change and forced migration scenarios: methods and findings from the Nile Delta, Sahel and Meking Delta Koko Warner, Alex de Sherbinin, Charles Erhart, Susana Adamo and Tricia Chai-Onn
Part II. Policy Responses, Normative Issues and Critical Perspectives: 9. Research and policy interactions in the birth of the 'environmental migration' concept François Gemenne
10. Lessons from past forced resettlement for climate change migration Graeme Hugo
11. Climate change and internal displacement: challenges to the normative framework Khalid Koser
12. Displacement, climate change and gender Lori M. Hunter and Emmanuel David
13. Drought, desertification and migration: past experiences, predicted impacts and human rights issues Michelle Leighton
14. The protection of 'environmental refugees' in international law Christel Cournil
15. 'Environmental refugees': aspects of international state responsibility Astrid Epiney
16. Concluding remarks on the climate change-migration nexus Stephen Castles.

Subject Areas: Human geography [RGC], Environment law [LNKJ], Environmental economics [KCN], International relations [JPS], Comparative politics [JPB], Migration, immigration & emigration [JFFN]