Full Description
This book provides insight into the impact of climate change on human mobility - including both migration and displacement - by synthesizing key concepts, research, methodology, policy, and emerging issues surrounding the topic. It illuminates the connections between climate change and its implications for voluntary migration, involuntary displacement, and immobility by providing examples from around the world. The chapters use the latest findings from the natural and social sciences to identify key interactions shaping current climate-related migration, displacement, and immobility; predict future changes in those patterns and methods used to model them; summarize key policy and governance instruments available to us to manage the movements of people in a changing climate; and offer directions for future research and opportunities. This book will be valuable for students, researchers, and policy makers of geography, environmental science, climate and sustainability studies, demography, sociology, public policy, and political science.
Contents
Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. People on the move in a changing climate; 2. Migration and displacement associated with extreme weather events: tropical cyclones, severe storms, heavy rainfall events, and flooding; 3. Migration and displacement associated with aridity, drought, heat and wildfires; 4. Migration and displacement risks associated with mean sea level rise; 5. Data and methods for modeling climate-related migration; 6. Policy considerations; 7. Emerging issues and future directions; Glossary of key terms; References; Index.
