Climate change and displacement: multidisciplinary perspectives / edited by Jane McAdam.

Contributor(s): McAdam, JaneMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Hart Pub., 2010Description: xvi, 258 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cmISBN: 9781849460385 (hardback); 1849460388 (hardback)Subject(s): Environmental refugees | Forced migration | Climatic changes -- Social aspectsDDC classification: 551.6
Contents:
Introduction / Jane McAdam -- Climate change-induced mobility and the existing migration regime in Asia and the Pacific / Graeme Hugo -- Migration as adaptation : opportunities and limits / Jon Barnett and Michael Webber -- Climate-induced community relocation in the Pacific : the meaning and importance of land / John Campbell -- Conceptualising climate-induced displacement / Walter Kalin -- Disappearing states, statelessness and the boundaries of international law / Jane McAdam -- Protecting people displaced by climate change : some conceptual challenges / Roger Zetter -- International ethical responsibilities to climate change refugees / Peter Penz -- Climate migration and climate migrants : what threat, whose security? / Lorraine Elliott -- Climate-related displacement : health risks and responses / Anthony J McMichael, Celia E McMichael, Helen L Berry and Kathryn Bowen -- Climate change, human movement and the promotion of mental health : what have we learnt from earlier global stressors? / Maryanne Loughry -- Afterword : What now? : climate-induced displacement after Copenhagen / Stephen Castles.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Jane McAdam -- Climate change-induced mobility and the existing migration regime in Asia and the Pacific / Graeme Hugo -- Migration as adaptation : opportunities and limits / Jon Barnett and Michael Webber -- Climate-induced community relocation in the Pacific : the meaning and importance of land / John Campbell -- Conceptualising climate-induced displacement / Walter Kalin -- Disappearing states, statelessness and the boundaries of international law / Jane McAdam -- Protecting people displaced by climate change : some conceptual challenges / Roger Zetter -- International ethical responsibilities to climate change refugees / Peter Penz -- Climate migration and climate migrants : what threat, whose security? / Lorraine Elliott -- Climate-related displacement : health risks and responses / Anthony J McMichael, Celia E McMichael, Helen L Berry and Kathryn Bowen -- Climate change, human movement and the promotion of mental health : what have we learnt from earlier global stressors? / Maryanne Loughry -- Afterword : What now? : climate-induced displacement after Copenhagen / Stephen Castles.

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