Climate Change, Vulnerability and Migration Paperback / softback
Edited by S. Irudaya (Professor, Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India) Rajan, R. B. (International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai, India) Bhagat
Paperback / softback
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This book highlights how climate change has affected migration in the Indian subcontinent.
Drawing on field research, it argues that extreme weather events such as floods, droughts, cyclones, cloudbursts as well as sea-level rise, desertification and declining crop productivity have shown higher frequency in recent times and have depleted bio-physical diversity and the capacity of the ecosystem to provide food and livelihood security.
The volume shows how the socio-economically poor are worst affected in these circumstances and resort to migration to survive.
The essays in the volume study the role of remittances sent by migrants to their families in environmentally fragile zones in providing an important cushion and adaptation capabilities to cope with extreme weather events.
The book looks at the socio-economic and political drivers of migration, different forms of mobility, mortality and morbidity levels in the affected population, and discusses mitigation and adaption strategies. The volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of environment and ecology, migration and diaspora studies, development studies, sociology and social anthropology, governance and public policy, and politics.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:306 pages, 40 Tables, black and white; 19 Line drawings, black and white; 19 Illustrations, black an
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:21/05/2019
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- ISBN:9780367345419
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:306 pages, 40 Tables, black and white; 19 Line drawings, black and white; 19 Illustrations, black an
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:21/05/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9780367345419
