Book contents
- Climate Change and Human Mobility
- Climate Change and Human Mobility
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface and acknowledgements
- Introduction: climate change and human mobility
- Part I Lessons from history: time, scale, and causality
- Part II Societal responses: livelihood, vulnerability, and migration
- 4 Relocation of reef and atoll island communities as an adaptation to climate change: learning from experience in Solomon Islands
- 5 Contextualizing links between migration and environmental change in northern Ethiopia
- 6 Climate-induced migration and conflict: what are the links?
- Part III Moral climates: experience, expectation, and mitigation
- Index
6 - Climate-induced migration and conflict: what are the links?
from Part II - Societal responses: livelihood, vulnerability, and migration
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2012
- Climate Change and Human Mobility
- Climate Change and Human Mobility
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface and acknowledgements
- Introduction: climate change and human mobility
- Part I Lessons from history: time, scale, and causality
- Part II Societal responses: livelihood, vulnerability, and migration
- 4 Relocation of reef and atoll island communities as an adaptation to climate change: learning from experience in Solomon Islands
- 5 Contextualizing links between migration and environmental change in northern Ethiopia
- 6 Climate-induced migration and conflict: what are the links?
- Part III Moral climates: experience, expectation, and mitigation
- Index
Summary
History tells us that humans are perfectly capable of adapting to a changing environment. The past ice ages are proof of the great adaptive capacity of our kind. Anthropogenic climate change will happen – and, if unabated – with catastrophic consequences. More extreme weather events, sea-level rise, and a hotter and drier climate are some of the predicted outcomes seriously affecting people's choice of where to live on an increasingly crowded planet. Climate-induced migration is not new, as already in the past people moved when faced by environmental change; but today, population densities have increased dramatically, and arable land has become more limited. Large cross-border streams of ‘climate migrants’ or ‘environmental refugees’ caused by tropical cyclones, associated flooding and landslides, droughts, and sea-level rise could trigger resource competition with violent outcomes in the receiving country or region. But can these claims be substantiated? This chapter examines different types of natural hazards relevant for climate-induced migration, and argues that without an analysis identifying the people most vulnerable to natural hazards (for example, where they live and how they are affected), it is difficult to access the conflict potential of climate-induced migration.
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- Climate Change and Human MobilityChallenges to the Social Sciences, pp. 147 - 166Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012
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