Environmental migration and social inequality. ([2015])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Robert McLeman, Jeanette Schade, Thomas Faist, editors.
• Editors: McLeman, Robert A; Schade, Jeanette; Faist, Thomas, 1959-
• Contents: 1. Introduction: Environment, Migration, and Inequality – A Complex Dynamic.- 2. Rainfall Variability, Hunger, and Social Inequality, and Their Relative Influences on Migration: Evidence from Bangladesh.- 3. Shifting Rainfalls, Shifting Livelihoods: Seasonal Migration, Food Security and Social Inequality in Northern Ghana.- 4. Social and Spatial Inequality Linked to Flood-Induced Displacements in Burkina Faso in 2009 and 2010.- 5. Exploring the Relationship between Social Inequality and Environmentally-induced Migration: Evidence from Urban Household Surveys in Shanghai and Nanjing of China.- 6. Drought, Social Inequalities, Adaptation, and Farmers' Mobility in the Konya Plain of Turkey.- 7. Environmental Influences on Haitian Migration to Canada and Connections to Social Inequality: Evidence from Ottawa-Gatineau and Montreal.- 8. Social Inequality and International Migration Related to Climate Stressors: The Case of Mexico Kerstin Schmidt.- 9. Hidden in Plain Sight: Social Inequalities in the Context of Environmental Change.- 10. Migration, Environment and Inequality: Perspectives of a Political Ecology of Translocal Relations.- 11. Framing Labour Mobility Options in Small Island States Affected by Environmental Changes.- 12. The Arbitrary Project of Protecting Environmental Migrants.- 13. Conclusion: Inequality and Migration as Adaptation – Where do we go from here?.- Afterword: Social Inequality and Justice Triggered by the Anthropocene: An historical view.- Index.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2015
• Copyright Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiv, 237 pages), illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 305.9/06914; Environment; Environmental refugees; Equality; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies; Environmental refugees; Equality; Environmental sciences; Science -- Environmental Science; The environment; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319257969
• Related ISBNs: 331925796X; 9783319257945
• Notes: Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed December 30, 2015).
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