Environmental Non-Migration: Rethinking Sustainable Solutions for Climate-Induced Challenges [Hardcover]

This book challenges the dominant narrative of migration as the default response to climate change, introducing the concept of Environmental Non-Migration (ENM).

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Through skillful integration of personal narratives and the results of qualitative scholarship, ?Dr. Mallick has crafted a powerful overview of not moving as strategy in the face of environmental stress and change. He eloquently builds the argument that non-migration is not simply the absence of migration. Instead, decision-making around not moving is filled with nuance and complexities. A comprehensive bibliography provides an excellent overview of relevant scholarship crossing a variety of disciplines, including archival work that grounds the argument of non-migration as adaptation within human history. For centuries, some populations have seen leaving cherished places as more challenging than facing environmental challenges. Environmental Non-Migration: Rethinking Sustainable Solutions for Climate-Induced Challenges also provides an important roadmap for policymakers to support enhanced resilience so that exposed populations can realize their ambitions to stay in place.

Lori M. Hunter, Ph.D.?Director, Institute of Behavioral Science, Professor, Department of Sociology, Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado Boulder, USA

Bishawjit Mallick brings a distinctive and valuable new perspective to the challenge of environmental migration with his analysis of non-migration as an active choice that people make in the face of environmental stress. Prior work has largely treated remaining in ones community of origin as a passive, default choice, with migration away from that community as an active choice that is represented as a combination of push and pull factors. Mallicks novel perspective begins with the empiriclÃ#