Climate Change, Vulnerability and Migration

ISBN-13: 9780367345419 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 306 str.

S. Irudaya Rajan; R. B. Bhagat

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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