Migration and Displacement in a Changing Climate

ISBN : 9781009449625

Author : Kelsea Best

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Year : 2025

Language : English

Type : E-book

Description : This book provides insight into the impact of climate change on human mobility - including both migration and displacement - by synthesizing key concepts, research, methodology, policy, and emerging issues surrounding the topic. It illuminates the connections between climate change and its implications for voluntary migration, involuntary displacement, and immobility by providing examples from around the world. The chapters use the latest findings from the natural and social sciences to identify key interactions shaping current climate-related migration, displacement, and immobility; predict future changes in those patterns and methods used to model them; summarize key policy and governance instruments available to us to manage the movements of people in a changing climate; and offer directions for future research and opportunities. This book will be valuable for students, researchers, and policy makers of geography, environmental science, climate and sustainability studies, demography, sociology, public policy, and political science. Reviews ‘Migration and Displacement in a Changing Climate draws on evidence from the social and natural sciences, and from examples from across the globe, to provide an authoritative, balanced and comprehensive guide that cuts through the hyperbole and points to constructive ways to respond to this powerful emerging risk to social order.’ Jon Barnett - The University of Melbourne

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