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Migration and climate change / edited by Etienne Piguet, Antoine P�ecoud and Paul de Guchteneire.

Contributor(s): Paris : UNESCO Pub. ; 2011Cambridge, UK ; Cambridge University Press, 2011New York : 2011Description: xix, 442 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781107014855 (hardback)
  • 1107014859 (hardback)
  • 9781107662254 (pbk.)
  • 1107662257 (pbk.)
  • 9789231041990
  • 9231041991
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • QC903 .M54 2011
Contents:
Pt. 1. Evidence on the migration-climate change relationship -- Pt. 2. Policy responses, normative issues and critical perspectives.
Summary: "Migration and Climate Change provides the first authoritative overview of the relationship between climate change and migration, bringing together both case studies and syntheses from different parts of the world. It discusses policy responses, normative issues and critical perspectives from the point of view of human rights, international law, political science, and ethics, and addresses the concepts, notions and methods most suited to confronting this complex issue. The book constitutes a unique and thorough introduction to one of the most discussed but least understood consequences of climate change and brings together experts from a multitude of disciplines such as geography, anthropology and law, providing a valuable synthesis of research and debate"-- Provided by publisher.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
BOOK BOOK NCAR Library Foothills Lab QC903 .M54 2011 1 Available 50583010341109
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"Migration and Climate Change provides the first authoritative overview of the relationship between climate change and migration, bringing together both case studies and syntheses from different parts of the world. It discusses policy responses, normative issues and critical perspectives from the point of view of human rights, international law, political science, and ethics, and addresses the concepts, notions and methods most suited to confronting this complex issue. The book constitutes a unique and thorough introduction to one of the most discussed but least understood consequences of climate change and brings together experts from a multitude of disciplines such as geography, anthropology and law, providing a valuable synthesis of research and debate"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pt. 1. Evidence on the migration-climate change relationship -- Pt. 2. Policy responses, normative issues and critical perspectives.

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