Climate change, vulnerability and migration / edited by S. Irudaya Rajan and R.B. Bhagat.
"This book highlights how climate change has affected migration in the Indian subcontinent. Drawing on field research, it argues that extreme weather events such as floods, droughts, cyclones, cloudbursts as well as sea-level rise, desertification and declining crop productivity have shown high...
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2018.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Dedication; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Preface and acknowledgements; 1 Migration in the context of climate change: an introduction; 2 Climate change, vulnerability and migration in India: overlapping hotspots; 3 Migrating to adapt? Exploring the climate change, migration and adaptation nexus; 4 Exploring vulnerability in flood-affected remittance-recipient and non-recipient households of upper Assam in India; 5 Institutional response to displacement due to chronic disasters: the art of muddling through.
- 6 Remittances as self-insured life: on migration, flood and conflict in North-Western Pakistan7 Situating migration in planned and autonomous adaptation practices to climate change in Bangladesh; 8 Migration in response to environmental change: a risk perception study from Sundarban Biosphere Reserve; 9 Gender processes in rural outmigration and socio-economic development in the Himalaya; 10 Climate change, drought and vulnerability: a historical narrative approach to migration from Western Odisha, India.
- 11 Dynamics of distress seasonal migration: a study of a drought-prone Mahabubnagar district in Telangana12 Seasonal migration from dry climatic zone: a case of rural Maharashtra; 13 Migrant ecology; 14 Spaces of recognition of climate migrants in India: question of rights and responsibilities; Index.