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Environment, Forced Migration and Social Vulnerability (Record no. 24506)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9783642124167
978-3-642-12416-7
050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number QC902.8-903.2
082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 577.27
Edition number 23
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-- Berlin, Heidelberg :
-- Springer Berlin Heidelberg :
-- Imprint: Springer,
-- 2010.
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100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Afifi, Tamer.
Relator term editor.
245 10 - IMMEDIATE SOURCE OF ACQUISITION NOTE
Title Environment, Forced Migration and Social Vulnerability
Medium [electronic resource] /
Statement of responsibility, etc edited by Tamer Afifi, Jill Jäger.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent XV, 210p.
Other physical details online resource.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Defining the Terms: Introduction -- Environmentally Induced Displacement and the 1951 Refugee Convention: Pathways to Recognition -- Institutional Barriers to the Recognition and Assistance of Environmentally Forced Migrants -- What’s in a Name: Social Vulnerabilities and the Refugee Controversy in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina -- Approaches for the Study of Forced Migration -- Forced Migration from Sub-Saharan Africa: The Conflict–Environment Link -- Solastalgia: Environmentally Induced Distress and Migration Among Africa’s Poor Due to Climate Change -- Climate Change and Migration -- Climate and Migration: A Synthesis -- Forced Migration of Alaskan Indigenous Communities Due to Climate Change -- ‘Buscando la vida’ – How Do Perceptions of Increasingly Dry Weather Affect Migratory Behaviour in Zacatecas, Mexico? -- Migration and Other Forms of Environmental Degradation -- Environmental Migration from Rainfed Regions in India Forced by Poor Returns from Watershed Development Projects -- Migration to Contaminated Sites: Migrants’ Settlements in Central and Eastern Europe Built in Places with High Environmental and Social Vulnerability -- Migration and Natural Hazards: Is Relocation a Secondary Disaster or an Opportunity for Vulnerability Reduction? -- Guatemala: A Review of Historic and Recent Relocation Processes Provoked by Disasters of Natural Origin -- EACH FOR Case Studies and Scenarios -- Environmental Factors in Mexican Migration: The Cases of Chiapas and Tlaxcala -- Case Study Senegal: Environmental Degradation and Forced Migration -- The Environmental Root Causes Triggering Economic Migration: The Case of Egypt -- A Country Made for Disasters: Environmental Vulnerability and Forced Migration in Bangladesh -- In the Land of Ostriches: Developmentalism, Environmental Degradation, and Forced Migration in Turkey -- Environmental Migration: Case of Kyrgyzstan -- Linking the Earth’s Future to Migration: Scenarios of Environmental Change and Possible Impacts on Forced Migration.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc This book examines the linkages between environmental change and forced migration. This has been a headline topic during the past few years with predictions of “millions of refugees”. It presents case studies from across the world of responses to climate change as well as other environmental changes and examines the role that environmental change plays among the other factors that lead to a decision to migrate.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Environmental sciences.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Climatic changes.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Migration.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Environment.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Climate Change.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Migration.
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Jäger, Jill.
Relator term editor.
710 2# - ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME
Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element SpringerLink (Online service)
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Title Springer eBooks
776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY
Display text Printed edition:
International Standard Book Number 9783642124150
856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Uniform Resource Identifier http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12416-7
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Source of classification or shelving scheme
Item type E-Book
Copies
Price effective from Permanent location Date last seen Not for loan Date acquired Source of classification or shelving scheme Koha item type Damaged status Lost status Withdrawn status Current location Full call number
2014-04-08AUM Main Library2014-04-08 2014-04-08 E-Book   AUM Main Library577.27

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