Migration, environment and climate change
Subtitle: assessing the evidence
By: edited by Frank Laczko and Christine Aghazarm
Contributors: International Organization for Migration; Laczko, Frank, 1957-; Aghazarm, Christine
Publisher: International Organization for Migration
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Geneva
Language: eng
Number of pages: 441
ISBN-13: 9789290684541
Subjects: Climatic changes; Environmental aspects; Emigration and immigration
Description: "The main purpose of this ... book is to suggest concrete ways in which the international community can begin to address the huge gaps in ... knowledge relating to the likely impact of climate change on migration. The book does this by taking stock of the existing evidence on the effects of climate change and environmental degradation on migration, providing a comprehensive overview of the findings of recent research studies.Throughout, [the] focus is centred on how research can best inform policy and provide the evidence which decision-makers will need in the future to plan for and respond to environmentally induced migration." --foreword.
Notes: "International Organization for Migration, in collaboration with Institute for Environment and Human Security, United Nations University"

Includes bibliographical references.

Also available in print version.
Table of contents: title: Ch. I: Introduction and Overview: Enhancing the knowledge base; title: Ch. II: Challenges and approaches to measuring the migration-environment nexus; title: Ch. III: Collecting data on the migration-environment nexus; title: Ch. IV: Researching environmental change and migration: evaluation of EACH-FOR methodology and application in 23 case studies worldwide; title: Ch. V: Migration and natural disasters; title: Ch. VI: Migration and slow-onset disasters: desertification and drought; title: Ch. VII: Managing environmentally induced migration.