Environmental Change, Adaptation and Migration : Bringing in the Region /: Bringing in the Region. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Felicitas Hillmann, Marie Pahl, Birte Rafflenbeul, Harald Sterly.
• Editors: Professor, Hillmann, Felicitas; Pahl, Marie; Rafflenbeul, Birte; Sterly, Harald
• Contents: 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; 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; ;
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (328 pages), (13 illustrations)
• Subjects: Public Policy/Environmental Policy; Emigration & Immigration; Sustainability; Social impact of environmental issues
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137538925; 1137538929
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.