Martin Climate, Environmental Hazards and Migration in Bangladesh

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-315-29744-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 242 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Change

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 probes how hazards often snowball into disasters and push out people living on the margins of the country’s political economy. It also examines how people address these shocks and stresses by adjusting their habitats and livelihoods to suit the changed scenarios, by staying or moving.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Martin, Max

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Allgemeines, Karten & Atlanten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction 2. Bangladesh: A hotspot of climate change 3. Alarm, scepticism and hard evidence: the debate about climate-related migration 4. Stay or move? Migration decisions amid climate uncertainties 5. Climate, environment or poverty? 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

Über Autor(innen)

Max is a journalist-turned-geographer. Since April 2015, he has been a research officer at the Institute of Development Studies, UK, and a visiting researcher at the International Centre for Climate Change and Development based at the Independent University, Bangladesh in Dhaka.