The last twenty years have seen a rapid increase in scholarly activity and publications dedicated to environmental migration and displacement, and the field has now reached a point in terms of profile, complexity, and sheer volume of reporting that a general review and assessment of existing knowledge and future research priorities is warranted. So far, such a product does not exist.
The Routledge Handbook of Environmental Displacement and Migration provides a state-of-the-science review of research on how environmental variability and change influence current and future global migration patterns and, in some instances, trigger large-scale population displacements. Drawing together contributions from leading researchers in the field, this compendium will become a go-to guide for established and newly interested scholars, for government and policymaking entities, and for students and their instructors. It explains theoretical, conceptual, and empirical developments that have been made in recent years; describes their origins and connections to broader topics including migration research, development studies, and international public policy and law; and highlights emerging areas where new and/or additional research and reflection are warranted.
The structure and the nature of the book allow the reader to quickly find a concise review relevant to conducting research or developing policy on particular topics, and to obtain a broad, reliable survey of what is presently known about the subject.
Table of Contents:
Front matter
Editors’ foreword. Robert McLeman & François Gemenne
Foreword. Mary Robinson
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
List of tables
Chapters
Part I: Existing knowledge, theories and methods
1.Environmental migration research: evolution and current state of the science
Robert McLeman & François Gemenne
2. Theories of voluntary and forced migration
Etienne Piguet
3. Mobility, displacement and migration and their interactions with vulnerability and adaptation to environmental risks
W. Neil Adger, Ricardo Safra de Campos & Colette Mortreux
4. Environmental change and international migration: a review
Luisa Veronis, Bonnie Boyd, Reiko Obokata & Brittany Main
5. Immobility
Caroline Zickgraf
6. Geospatial modelling and mapping
Alex de Sherbinin & Ling Bai
7. Modeling migration and population displacement in response to environmental and climate change: Multilevel event history models
Jack DeWaard & Raphael J. Nawrotzki
8. Estimating the population impacts of sea level rise
Katherine J. Curtis & Rachel S. Bergmans
9. Qualitative research techniques: It’s a case-studies world
François Gemenne
10. Incorporating indigenous knowledge in research
Tristan Pearce
11. Gender, migration, and (global) environmental change
Giovanna Gioli & Andrea Milan
12. Environmental migrants, climate ‘refugees’ and sun-seeking expats: Capturing the larger context of migration in a changing climate through appropriate and effective behavioural research Dominic Kniveton, Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson & Christopher Smith
Part II: Empirical evidence from regions
13. Environmental change and migration: A review of West African case studies
Victoria van der Land, Clemens Romankiewicz & Kees van der Geest
14. Burkina Faso: The adaptation-migration policy nexus in a drying climate
Nakia Pearson
15. Fleeing from arid lands: Pastoralism in the context of climate change
Julia Blocher
16. Climate and risk of migration in South Africa
Rachel Licker & Marina Mastrorillo
17. Deforestation, drought and environmental migration in Brazil: an overview
Erika Pires Ramos & Lilian Yamamoto
18. Internal migration in Bangladesh: A comparative analysis of coastal, environmentally challenged, and other districts
Bimal Kanti Paul & Avantika Ramekar
19. Environmental stressors and population mobility in China: Causes, approaches and consequences
Yan Tan
20. Environmental migration in Mexico
Daniel Simon
21. Transnational approaches to remittances, risk reduction and disaster relief: Evidence from post-Typhoon Haiyan experiences of Filipino immigrants in Canada
Reiko Obokata & Luisa Veronis
22. Population displacements and migration patterns in response to Hurricane Katrina
Elizabeth Fussell
23. A community-based model for resettlement: Lessons from coastal Louisiana
Julie K. Maldonado & Kristina Peterson
24. Social and cultural dimensions of environment-related mobility and planned relocations in the South Pacific
Dalila Gharbaoui
Part III: Legal and policy considerations
25. Definitions and concepts
Benoît Mayer
26. Human rights, environmental displacement and migration
Dug Cubie
27. Climate, migration and displacement: Exploring the politics of preventative action
Craig Johnson
28. Environmental migration and international political security: rhetoric, reality and questions
Stern Mwakalimi Kita & Clionadh Raleigh
29. Green grabbing-induced displacement
Sara Vigil
30. Climate-induced community relocations: Institutional challenges, human rights protections, and the example of Alaskan indigenous communities
Robin Bronen
31. UNHCR’s perspectives on displacement in the context of climate change
Marine Franck
32. Environmental change and human mobility: Perspectives from the World Bank
Susan F. Martin, Jonas Bergmann, Hanspeter Wyss & Kanta Kumari
33. Environmental migration and the UN Environment Programme
Oli Brown & Brian Wittbold
34. Platform on Disaster Displacement, Follow-up to the Nansen Initiative: Addressing the protection needs of persons displaced across borders in the context of disasters and climate change. Platform on Disaster Displacement Secretariat
35. A moment of opportunity to define the global governance of environmental migration: Perspectives from the International Organization for Migration
Mariam Traore Chazalnoel & Dina Ionesco
36. Where do we go from here? Reflections on the future of environmental migration and displacement research
Lori Hunter
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