Climate change and human mobility : global challenges to the social sciences / edited by Kirsten Hastrup and Karen Fog Olwig
Imprint
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012
Descript
xii, 263 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm
CONTENT
Introduction: climate change and human mobility / Kirsten Hastrup and Karen Fog Olwig -- Leaving home: how can historic human movement inform the future? / Carole Crumley -- Inuit and climate change in the prehistoric eastern Arctic: a perspective from Greenland / Mikkel Sorensen -- Dehumanising the uprooted: lessons from Iceland in the Little Ice Age / Kirsten Hastrup -- Relocation of Reef and Atoll Island communities as an adaptation to climate change? Learning from experience in the Solomon Islands / Thomas Birk -- Contextualising links between migration and environmental change in northern Ethiopia / James Morrissey -- Climate-induced migration and conflict: what are the links? Christian Webersik -- On the risks of engineering mobility to reduce vulnerability to climate change: insights from a small island state / Jon Barnett -- Mobility, climate change and social dynamics in the Arctic: the creation of new horizons of expectation and the role of the community / Frank Sejersen -- Climate change and land grab in Africa: resilience for whom? / Quentin Gausset and Michael Whyte -- Climate change, migration and Christianity in Oceania / Wolfgang Kempf