Climate Change, Vulnerability And Migration

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 Pakistan -- 7 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 Telangana -- 12 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

• | Author: S. Irudaya Rajan, R. B. Bhagat
• | Publisher: Routledge India
• | Publication Date: Sep 26, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 306 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0415790727
• | ISBN-13: 9780415790727