Routledge Handbook of Environmental Displacement and Migration

Robert McLeman is a former foreign service officer specializing in migration management and is presently Associate Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Canada.François Gemenne is Director of the Hugo Observatory at the University of Liège, Belgium, the first research centre dedicated to the interactions between environmental change and human migration. A political scientist by training, he is also the executive director of the research programme Politics of the Earth at Sciences Po in Paris, where he is a lecturer in environmental politics.

"Environmental migration and displacement is a massive phenomenon, a new wicked universality whose political influence is felt everywhere. This book is important not only for those who document the pace and size of the phenomenon, but also for those in receiving countries who must learn how to cope with it." --Bruno Latour, sociologist and philosopher, France "This handbook allows us to anticipate impending disasters, such as the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami which was one of the first topics of discussion for my government, and the volume calls for rapid solutions. I am optimistic and I believe that we can save the planet, because the world has equipped itself with the knowledge and technology to do so. This is a most helpful guide for political parties who want to formulate responsible and vote winning polices. It’s a blue print for NGOs interested in doing good. It’s the definitive guide on the subject and a good read." -- Mohamed Nasheed, former President of the Maldives"This Handbook is essential reading and a key teaching resource for everyone interested in an interdisciplinary approach to climate change and migration. McLeman and Gemenne succeed in bringing together a state of the art collection of articles that provide a comprehensive survey of current thinking, not only on the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of a quickly expanding field of research, but also on the available empirical evidence as well as current developments in the areas of law and policy." -- Walter Kälin, Special Envoy of the Chairmanship of the Platform on Disaster Displacement"This Handbook will be a resource to policy makers to identify the current state of the science on the impacts, responses and best practices relating to environmental migration and displacement." -- Mary Robinson, President, Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice, Ireland

• Front matterEditors’ foreword. Robert McLeman & François GemenneForeword. Mary RobinsonAcknowledgementsList of FiguresList of tablesChaptersPart I: Existing knowledge, theories and methods 1.Environmental migration research: evolution and current state of the science Robert McLeman & François Gemenne 2. Theories of voluntary and forced migrationEtienne Piguet3. Mobility, displacement and migration and their interactions with vulnerability and adaptation to environmental risksW. Neil Adger, Ricardo Safra de Campos & Colette Mortreux4. Environmental change and international migration: a reviewLuisa Veronis, Bonnie Boyd, Reiko Obokata & Brittany Main5. Immobility Caroline Zickgraf6. Geospatial modelling and mapping Alex de Sherbinin & Ling Bai7. Modeling migration and population displacement in response to environmental and climate change: Multilevel event history models Jack DeWaard & Raphael J. Nawrotzki8. Estimating the population impacts of sea level riseKatherine J. Curtis & Rachel S. Bergmans9. Qualitative research techniques: It’s a case-studies world François Gemenne10. Incorporating indigenous knowledge in research Tristan Pearce11. Gender, migration, and (global) environmental changeGiovanna Gioli & Andrea Milan12. Environmental migrants, climate ‘refugees’ and sun-seeking expats: Capturing the larger context of migration in a changing climate through appropriate and effective behavioural research Dominic Kniveton, Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson & Christopher SmithPart II: Empirical evidence from regions 13. Environmental change and migration: A review of West African case studies Victoria van der Land, Clemens Romankiewicz & Kees van der Geest14. Burkina Faso: The adaptation-migration policy nexus in a drying climateNakia Pearson15. Fleeing from arid lands: Pastoralism in the context of climate changeJulia Blocher16. Climate and risk of migration in South AfricaRachel Licker & Marina Mastrorillo17. Deforestation, drought and environmental migration in Brazil: an overviewErika Pires Ramos & Lilian Yamamoto18. Internal migration in Bangladesh: A comparative analysis of coastal, environmentally challenged, and other districts Bimal Kanti Paul & Avantika Ramekar19. Environmental stressors and population mobility in China: Causes, approaches and consequencesYan Tan20. Environmental migration in MexicoDaniel Simon21. Transnational approaches to remittances, risk reduction and disaster relief: Evidence from post-Typhoon Haiyan experiences of Filipino immigrants in CanadaReiko Obokata & Luisa Veronis22. Population displacements and migration patterns in response to Hurricane KatrinaElizabeth Fussell 23. A community-based model for resettlement: Lessons from coastal Louisiana Julie K. Maldonado & Kristina Peterson24. Social and cultural dimensions of environment-related mobility and planned relocations in the South PacificDalila GharbaouiPart III: Legal and policy considerations 25. Definitions and conceptsBenoît Mayer26. Human rights, environmental displacement and migrationDug Cubie27. Climate, migration and displacement: Exploring the politics of preventative actionCraig Johnson28. Environmental migration and international political security: rhetoric, reality and questionsStern Mwakalimi Kita & Clionadh Raleigh29. Green grabbing-induced displacementSara Vigil30. Climate-induced community relocations: Institutional challenges, human rights protections, and the example of Alaskan indigenous communitiesRobin Bronen31. UNHCR’s perspectives on displacement in the context of climate changeMarine Franck32. Environmental change and human mobility: Perspectives from the World BankSusan F. Martin, Jonas Bergmann, Hanspeter Wyss & Kanta Kumari33. Environmental migration and the UN Environment ProgrammeOli Brown & Brian Wittbold34. Platform on Disaster Displacement, Follow-up to the Nansen Initiative: Addressing the protection needs of persons displaced across borders in the context of disasters and climate change. Platform on Disaster Displacement Secretariat35. A moment of opportunity to define the global governance of environmental migration: Perspectives from the International Organization for MigrationMariam Traore Chazalnoel & Dina Ionesco36. Where do we go from here? Reflections on the future of environmental migration and displacement researchLori HunterIndex