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Environmental Change, Adaptation and Migration: Bringing in the Region
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781137538901 |
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Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan UK |
Publication date: | 09/23/2015 |
Edition description: | 1st ed. 2015 |
Pages: | 299 |
Product dimensions: | 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d) |
About the Author
Marie Pahl is a researcher in the 'Megacities-Megachallenge. Informal Dynamics of Global Change' programme at the University of Cologne, Germany. Her research investigates the competition for high-skilled migrants in Chinese city with a focus on urban transformation.
Birte Rafflenbeul is a researcher in the 'Megacities-Megachallenge. Informal Dynamics of Global Change' programme and a research associate at the University of Cologne. She conducts research on highly-skilled international migration and its impact on urban development in Guangzhou, China.
Harald Sterly is Scientific Coordinator of the research programme 'Megacities-Megachallenge. Informal Dynamics of Global Change' at the University of Cologne. Current research interests include translocality and social change in South Asia and Western Africa.
Table of Contents
Introduction: (Re-)locating the Nexus of Migration, Environmental Change and Adaptation; Felicitas Hillmann, Marie Pahl, Birte Rafflenbeul and Harald Sterly
PART I: FRAMING THE DEBATE
1. Climate Mobilities from a Human Geography Perspective – Considering the Spatial Dimensions of Climate Change; Johannes Herbeck
2. Human Mobility and Adaptation: Reducing Susceptibility to Climate Stressors and Mainstreaming; Koko Warner, Juan Hoffmaister and Andrea Milan
PART II: UNDERSTANDING REGIONAL VULNERABILITIES
3. 'Migration as adaptation': new perspective for migration research or dead-end?; Sabine Dorlöchter-Sulser
4. Migration and Social Protection as Adaptation in Response to Climate-related Stressors: The Case of Zacatecas in Mexico; Mustafa Aksakal and Kerstin Schmidt
5. The Role of a Priori Cross-border Migration after Extreme Climate Events: The Case of the Philippines after Typhoon Haiyan; Cleovi Mosuela and Denise Margaret Matias
6. Migration as Future Adaptive Capacity: the Case of Java – Indonesia; Wiwandari Handayani and Novia Riska Kumalasari
PART III: EXTREME REGIONAL SITUATIONS: BANGLADESH
7. Indigenous Women's Migration to Cities: Root Causes, Coping Mechanisms and Gendered Transformations; Meghna Guhathakurta
8. Disaster-induced Migration and Adaptation Discourse in Bangladesh; Bishawjit Mallick and Tamanna Siddiqui
Climate Change Induced Migration and Post Disaster Remittance Responses through a Gender Lens; Priyanka Debnath
PART IV: EXTREME REGIONAL SITUATIONS: GHANA
9. Changing Reproductive Behaviour and Migration in Response to Environmental Change: Evidence from Rural Northern Ghana; Stephen A. Adaawen
10. Dealing with Climate Change in the Coastal Savannah Zone of Ghana: In Situ Adaptation Strategies and Migration; Joseph Kofi Teye and Kwadwo Owusu
11. Finding the Right Path: Climate Change and Migration in Northern Ghana; Francis Xavier Jarawura and Lothar Smith
12. Beyond Adaptation? The Changing Nature of Seasonal Migration in Northern Ghana in the Context of Climate Change, Agricultural Decline and Food Insecurity; Benjamin Schraven and Christina Rademacher-Schulz
PART V: BRINGING THINGS TOGETHER: CONCLUSIONS
13. Conclusion: Linking Migration, Environmental Change and Adaptation – Lessons Learnt (Felicitas Hillmann, Marie Pahl, Birte Rafflenbeul, Harald Sterly)
Index