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245 _aClimate change and human mobility:
_b global challenges to the social sciences /
_cedited by Kirsten Hastrup and Karen Fog Olwig.
260 _bCambridge University Press,
_c2012.
_aDelhi:
300 _axii, 263 p.
505 _a1. Introduction: climate change and human mobility Kirsten Hastrup and Karen Fog Olwig; 2. Leaving home: how can historic human movement inform the future? Carole Crumley; 3. Inuit and climate change in the prehistoric eastern Arctic: a perspective from Greenland Mikkel Sorensen; 4. Dehumanising the uprooted: lessons from Iceland in the Little Ice Age Kirsten Hastrup; 5. Relocation of Reef and Atoll Island communities as an adaptation to climate change? Learning from experience in the Solomon Islands Thomas Birk; 6. Contextualising links between migration and environmental change in northern Ethiopia James Morrissey; 7. On the risks of engineering mobility to reduce vulnerability to climate change: insights from a small island state Jon Barnett; 8. Mobility, climate change and social dynamics in the Arctic: the creation of new horizons of expectation and the role of the community Frank Sejersen; 9. Land grab in Africa: resilience for whom? Quentin Gausset and Michael Whyte; 10. Climate change, migration and Christianity in Oceania Wolfgang Kempf; 11. Climate-induced migration and conflict: what are the links? Christian Webersik.
520 _aThis book examines the pressing issue of human mobility in relation to climate change. By investigating large questions and concrete local cases, where the link between climate change and human mobility is clear, it shows the complexity of human responses to climate change and raises important questions of causality.
650 _aMigration, Internal-Environmental aspects 2. Climatic ch
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