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Environment, Forced Migration and Social Vulnerability

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Editors:
  1. Tamer Afifi

    1. Inst. Environment, Human Security, (UNU-EHS), United Nations University, Bonn, Germany

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  2. Jill Jäger

    1. Vienna, Austria

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  3. Approaches for the Study of Forced Migration

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 41-41
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    2. Forced Migration from Sub-Saharan Africa: The Conflict–Environment Link

      • Wim Naude
      Pages 43-55

    3. Solastalgia: Environmentally Induced Distress and Migration Among Africa’s Poor Due to Climate Change

      • Petra Tschakert, Raymond Tutu
      Pages 57-69

  6. EACH FOR Case Studies and Scenarios

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 169-170
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    2. Environmental Factors in Mexican Migration: The Cases of Chiapas and Tlaxcala

      • Stefan Alscher
      Pages 171-185

    3. Case Study Senegal: Environmental Degradation and Forced Migration

      • Frauke Bleibaum
      Pages 187-196
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About this book

This book is one of the outputs of the conference on ‘Environmental Change, Forced Migration, and Social Vulnerability’ (EFMSV) held in Bonn in October 2008. Migration is one of the oldest adaptation measures of humanity. Indeed, without migration the multitude of civilizations and interactions between them – peaceful and otherwise – would be hard to imagine. The United Nations (UN)-led global dialogue on migration is a clear sign that governments and the specialized UN agencies and bodies have recognized the need to view, govern, manage, and facilitate migration; to mitigate its negative effects; and to capitalize on the positive ones. It is a common expectation among experts that environmentally induced migration will further increase in the decades to come. Hence, next to the political, economic, ethnic, social, financial, humanitarian, and security aspects of migration, the environmental component should urgently be considered in the ongoing international dialogue on migration. This need is also a challenge. Without appropriate scientific knowledge, assessment, definitions, and classifications, the intergovernmental frameworks would not be able to deal with these complex phenomena. The Five-Pronged-Approach as formulated by the United Nations University (UNU) may serve as a framework to identify the additional dimensions of this challenge next to – and actually simultaneously with – the scientific one.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Inst. Environment, Human Security, (UNU-EHS), United Nations University, Bonn, Germany

    Tamer Afifi

  • Vienna, Austria

    Jill Jäger

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Environment, Forced Migration and Social Vulnerability

  • Editors: Tamer Afifi, Jill Jäger

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12416-7

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-12415-0Published: 21 August 2010

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-43719-9Published: 12 October 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-12416-7Published: 05 August 2010

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 271

  • Topics: Climate Change, Migration

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