Climate, Environmental Hazards and Migration in Bangladesh

ISBN-13: 9780367667672 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 230 str.

Max Martin

Opis

This book traces the linkages between climate and environment-related hazards and migration, and attempts to dispel some popular myths. While the book takes Bangladesh as a case study, it will address the international debate over the linkages between climate, environment and migration, and highlight its conceptual and empirical dimensions. It p

Spis treści

1. Introduction 2. Bangladesh: a hotspot of climate change 3. Apocalypse now? Alarm, skepticism and evidence in the climate-migration debate 4. Stay or move? Migration decisions amidst uncertainties 5. Climate, environment or poverty? Statistical analysis of factors that drive migration 6. Removing roadblocks: policy challenges in making migration an adaptation strategy 7. The song of the road: weaving together the migration story

O autorze

Max Martin is a geographer focusing on people’s responses to climate and environment. He studied at Universities of Kerala, Oxford and Sussex. He has engaged in research at the Institute of Development Studies, UK, and International Centre for Climate Change and Development, Bangladesh; and taught human ecology at University College London. Currently he is a research associate at Sussex, developing a marine weather forecast system called Radio Monsoon for artisanal fishers of the Arabian Sea.