Climate Change and Human Mobility - Challenges to the Social Sciences

Klappentext This book examines general questions and particular cases of climate-change related mobility, and explores their implications for the social sciences. Zusammenfassung This 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. 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.

Product details

• Authors: Kirsten Fog Olwig Hastrup
• Assisted by: Karen Fog Olwig (Editor), Kirsten Hastrup (Editor), Hastrup Kirsten (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.08.2012
• EAN: 9781107028210
• ISBN: 978-1-107-02821-0
• No. of pages: 276
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, Climate Change, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Demography, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social impact of environmental issues, Migration, immigration and emigration, Social and cultural anthropology, Human Geography, Population and migration geography, Development and environmental geography, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples