Climate change and displacement: multidisciplinary perspectives / edited by Jane McAdam. - Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Hart Pub., 2010. - xvi, 258 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

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Environmental refugees.
Forced migration.
Climatic changes--Social aspects.

551.6 / MCA/C