Migration and Climate Change [Hardcover]

This book provides an authoritative analysis of the impact of climate change on migration.'Climate refugees' are often presented as the human face of climate change. Despite media coverage of some emblematic (but often anecdotal) cases of displacement, no authoritative analysis has yet appeared. Migration and Climate Change provides a thorough introduction to a much discussed but poorly understood consequence of climate change.'Climate refugees' are often presented as the human face of climate change. Despite media coverage of some emblematic (but often anecdotal) cases of displacement, no authoritative analysis has yet appeared. Migration and Climate Change provides a thorough introduction to a much discussed but poorly understood consequence of climate change.Migration and Climate Change provides the first 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 P?coud 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 Fl?vio 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 Mcl£ˆ