Climate Change, Vulnerability and Migration

Herausgeber: Rajan, S Irudaya; Bhagat, R B

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume studies 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. It looks at the socio-economic and political drivers of migration, as well as adaptation strategies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 142mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780415790727
• ISBN-10: 0415790727
• Artikelnr.: 49407569

Autorenporträt

S. Irudaya Rajan is Professor, Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. With more than three decades of research experience, he has coordinated with K. C. Zachariah seven major migration surveys in Kerala since 1998, conducted migration surveys in Goa (2008) and Tamil Nadu (2015) and provided technical support to Gujarat (2010) and Punjab (2011) migration surveys. He is editor of the annual series 'India Migration Report' and the editor-in-chief of the journal Migration and Development. R. B. Bhagat is Professor and Head, Department of Migration and Urban Studies, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. He has served as Consultant to the UNESCO-UNICEF India Initiative on Migration and to the International Organisation of Migration (IOM), and Advisor to the Yale University Project on Climate Change and Communication. His research interests are in population, urbanisation, environment and migration issues.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures. List of Maps. List of Tables and Boxes. Contributors.
Preface and Acknowledgements. 1. Migration in the context of climate
change: An Introduction 2. Climate change, vulnerability and migration in
India: overlapping hot spots 3. Migrating to adapt? exploring the climate
change, migration and adaptation nexus 4. Exploring vulnerability in flood
affected remittance-recipient and non-recipient households of Upper Assam
in India 5. Institutional response to displacement due to chronic
disasters: the Art of muddling through 6. Remittances as self-insured life:
On migration, flood and conflict in north-western Pakistan 7. Situating
migration in planned and autonomous adaptation practices to climate change
in Bangladesh 8. Migration in response to environmental change: A risk
perception study from Sundarban Biosphere Reserve 9. Gender processes in
rural outmigration and socio-economic development in the Himalaya 10.
Climate change, drought and vulnerability: A historical narrative approach
to migration from Eastern India 11. Dynamics of distress seasonal
migration: A Study of a drought-rone Mahabubnagar District in Telangana
12. Seasonal migration from dry climatic zone: A case study of rural
Maharashtra 13. Migrant ecology 14. Spaces of Recognition of Climate
Migrants Inin India: Question of Rights and Responsibilities. Index