MARC Record from Library of Congress

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003 DLC
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008 130723s2014 nyuab b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2013029365
020 $a9781107022652 (Hardback)
020 $a9781107606708 (Paperback)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aGF71$b.M35 2014
082 00 $a304.8$223
084 $aLAW034000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aMcLeman, Robert A.
245 10 $aClimate and human migration :$bpast experiences, future challenges /$cRobert A. McLeman, Wilfrid Laurier University.
264 1 $aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2014.
300 $axv, 294 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c26 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"Studies warn that global warming and sea level rise will create hundreds of millions of environmental refugees. While climate change will undoubtedly affect future migration patterns and behavior, the potential outcomes are far more complex than the environmental refugee scenario suggests. This book provides a comprehensive review of how physical and human processes interact to shape migration, using simple diagrams and models to guide the researcher, policy maker, and advanced student through the climate-migration process. The book applies standard concepts and theories used in climate and migration scholarship to explain how events such as Hurricane Katrina, the Dust Bowl, African droughts, and floods in Bangladesh and China have triggered migrations that haven't always fit the environmental refugee storyline. Lessons from past migrations are used to predict how future migration patterns will unfold in the face of sea level rise, food insecurity, and political instability, and to review options for policy makers"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 239-288) and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: 1. An introduction to the study of climate and migration; 2. Why people migrate; 3. Migration in the context of vulnerability and adaptation to climatic variability and change; 4. Extreme weather events and migration; 5. River valley flooding and migration; 6. Drought and its influence on migration; 7. Mean sea level rise and its implications for migration and migration policy; 8. Emergent issues in climate and migration research.
650 0 $aHuman beings$xEffect of climate on.
650 0 $aClimatic changes.
650 0 $aHuman beings$xMigrations.
650 0 $aHuman geography.
650 7 $aLAW / Environmental.$2bisacsh
856 42 $3Cover image$uhttp://assets.cambridge.org/97811070/22652/cover/9781107022652.jpg