Felicitas Hillmann, Marie Pahl, Birte Rafflenbeul, Harald Sterly

Environmental Change, Adaptation and Migration

Bringing in the Region
Herausgegeben:Hillmann, Felicitas; Pahl, Marie; Rafflenbeul, Birte; Sterly, Harald

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Produktbeschreibung

The contributors present empirical and theoretical insights on current debates on environmental change, adaptation and migration. While focusing on countries subject to environmental degradation, it calls for a regional perspective that recognises local actors and a systematic link between development studies and migration research.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-53890-1
• 1st ed. 2015
• Seitenzahl: 299
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 492g
• ISBN-13: 9781137538901
• ISBN-10: 1137538902
• Artikelnr.: 42850221

Autorenporträt

Felicitas Hillmann is Professor at the Technische Universität Berlin, Germany, and leads the research unit "Regeneration of Cities" at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning in Erkner. She is Head of the Migration Unit for the project 'New regional formations: rapid environmental change and migration'. She has published in the field of international migration, migrant entrepreneurship and urban transformation. Marie Pahl is a researcher in the 'Megacities-Megachallenge. Informal Dynamics of Global Change' programme at the University of Cologne, Germany. Her research investigates the competition for high-skilled migrants in Chinese city with a focus on urban transformation. Birte Rafflenbeul is a researcher in the 'Megacities-Megachallenge. Informal Dynamics of Global Change' programme and a research associate at the University of Cologne. She conducts research on highly-skilled international migration and its impact on urban development in Guangzhou, China. Harald Sterly is Scientific Coordinator of the research programme 'Megacities-Megachallenge. Informal Dynamics of Global Change' at the University of Cologne. Current research interests include translocality and social change in South Asia and Western Africa.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: (Re-)locating the Nexus of Migration, Environmental Change
and Adaptation; Felicitas Hillmann, Marie Pahl, Birte Rafflenbeul and
Harald Sterly PART I: FRAMING THE DEBATE 1. Climate Mobilities from a Human
Geography Perspective - Considering the Spatial Dimensions of Climate
Change; Johannes Herbeck 2. Human Mobility and Adaptation: Reducing
Susceptibility to Climate Stressors and Mainstreaming; Koko Warner, Juan
Hoffmaister and Andrea Milan PART II: UNDERSTANDING REGIONAL
VULNERABILITIES 3. 'Migration as adaptation': new perspective for migration
research or dead-end?; Sabine Dorlöchter-Sulser 4. Migration and Social
Protection as Adaptation in Response to Climate-related Stressors: The Case
of Zacatecas in Mexico; Mustafa Aksakal and Kerstin Schmidt-Verkerk 5. The
Role of a Priori Cross-border Migration after Extreme Climate Events: The
Case of the Philippines after Typhoon Haiyan; Cleovi Mosuela and Denise
Margaret Matias 6. Migration as Future Adaptive Capacity: the Case of Java
- Indonesia; Wiwandari Handayani and Novia Riska Kumalasari PART III:
EXTREME REGIONAL SITUATIONS: BANGLADESH 7. Indigenous Women's Migration to
Cities: Root Causes, Coping Mechanisms and Gendered Transformations; Meghna
Guhathakurta 8. Disaster-induced Migration and Adaptation Discourse in
Bangladesh; Bishawjit Mallick and Tamanna Siddiqui Climate Change Induced
Migration and Post Disaster Remittance Responses through a Gender Lens;
Priyanka Debnath PART IV: EXTREME REGIONAL SITUATIONS: GHANA 9. Changing
Reproductive Behaviour and Migration in Response to Environmental Change:
Evidence from Rural Northern Ghana; Stephen A. Adaawen 10. Dealing with
Climate Change in the Coastal Savannah Zone of Ghana: In Situ Adaptation
Strategies and Migration; Joseph Kofi Teye and Kwadwo Owusu 11. Finding the
Right Path: Climate Change and Migration in Northern Ghana; Francis Xavier
Jarawura and Lothar Smith 12. Beyond Adaptation? The Changing Nature of
Seasonal Migration in Northern Ghana in the Context of Climate Change,
Agricultural Decline and Food Insecurity; Benjamin Schraven and Christina
Rademacher-Schulz PART V: BRINGING THINGS TOGETHER: CONCLUSIONS 13.
Conclusion: Linking Migration, Environmental Change and Adaptation -
Lessons Learnt (Felicitas Hillmann, Marie Pahl, Birte Rafflenbeul, Harald
Sterly) Index

Rezensionen

"This book contributes to the literature about environmental change by framing migration as an important and relevant climate change adaptation strategy. ... This book also highlights positive aspects of climate change and environmental change induced migration. ... This book takes a special place in the literature: unlike other books dedicated to the environment-migration nexus, it is not only about post-disaster mobility, but allows for a more sophisticated and diversified definition of climate change impacts on population dynamics." (Karin Ingold, TESG - Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, July, 2017)
"The presentation allows learning relatively easy the basic techniques of modeling by those coming to the subject for the first time. This effect is achieved by keeping notations as elementary as possible. It is addressed to interdisciplinary graduate/undergraduate students and to interdisciplinary young researchers. Some chapters are available to Bachelor students who have passed introductory courses in algebra, calculus, and probability." (Tadeusz Aleksander Radzik and Krzysztof Józef Szajowski, Mathematica Applicanda, Vol. 45 (2), 2017)