ISBN:
9780253025920
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (ix, 259 Seiten)
,
Diagramme, Karten
Series Statement:
Encounters
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Wennersten, John R., 1941 - Rising tides
DDC:
362.87
Keywords:
Climatic changes Social aspects
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Global environmental change Social aspects
;
Migration, Internal Environmental aspects
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Emigration and immigration Environmental aspects
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Environmental refugees
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Environmental refugees
;
Electronic books
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Migration
;
Klimaänderung
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- PART ONE: CLIMATE REFUGEES IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY -- Introduction -- 1 Seeking Shelter from the Storm -- 2 Refugeedom -- PART TWO: PRESSURE POINTS AND REGIONAL ANALYSIS -- 3 What Happens When Your Country Drowns? -- 4 The Crisis Hits Home: Climate Refugees in the United States -- 5 Latin America: Land of Rain, Land of Thirst -- 6 Africa: Environmental Conflicts in a War-Torn Land -- 7 Middle East: The Boiling Point of Climate Change and National Security -- 8 Asia: The Looming Crisis -- PART THREE: POLICY IMPLICATIONS AND CONCLUSIONS -- 9 Current Affairs and Climate Refugees -- 10 The Shape of Things to Come
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