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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Climate Change and Displacement: Multidisciplinary Perspectives 2010 by Edited by Jane McAdam
Environmental migration is not new. Nevertheless the events and processes accompanying global climate change threaten to increase human movement both within states and across international borders. The Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change has predicted an increased frequency and severity of climate events such as storms cyclones and hurricanes as well as longer-term sea level rise and desertification which will impact upon peoples ability to survive in certain parts of the world. This book brings together a variety of disciplinary perspectives on the phenomenon of climate-induced displacement. With chapters by leading scholars in their field it collects in one place a rigorous holistic analysis of the phenomenon which can better inform academic understanding and policy development alike. Governments have not been prepared to take a leading role in developing responses to the issue in large part due to the absence of strong theoretical frameworks from which sound policy can be constructed.The specialist expertise of the authors in this book means that each chapter identifies key issues that need to be considered in shaping domestic regional and international responses including the complex causes of movement the conceptualisation of migration responses to climate change the terminology that should be used to describe those who move and attitudes to migration that may affect decisions to stay or leave. The book will help to facilitate the creation of principled research-based responses and establish climate-induced displacement as an important aspect of both the climate change and global migration debates.show more