Climate Change and Human Mobility: Global Challenges to the Social Sciences

doi:10.1017/CBO9781139235815

'The greatest single impact of climate change could be on human migration', stated the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 1990. Since then there has been considerable concern about the large-scale population movements that might take place because of climate change. This book examines emerging patterns of human mobility in relation to climate change, drawing on a multidisciplinary approach including anthropology and geography. It addresses both larger, general questions and concrete local cases, where the link between climate change and human mobility is manifest and demands attention - empirically, analytically and conceptually. Among the cases explored are both historical and contemporary instances of migration in response to climate change, and together they illustrate the necessity of analyzing new patterns of movement, historic cultural images and regulation practices in the wake of new global processes.

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Climate Change and Human Mobility - Half title page
pp i-ii
Global Challenges to the Social Sciences
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Climate Change and Human Mobility - Title page
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Global Challenges to the Social Sciences
- By Kirsten Hastrup, Karen Fog Olwig
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Copyright page
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Contents
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Contributors
pp vii-x
- By Jon Barnett, Thomas Birk, Carole L. Crumley, Quentin Gausset, Kirsten Hastrup, Wolfgang Kempf, James Morrissey, Karen Fog Olwig, Frank Sejersen, Mikkel SøRensen, Christian Webersik, Michael Whyte
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Preface and acknowledgements
pp xi-xii
- By Kirsten Hastrup, Karen Fog Olwig
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Introduction: - climate change and human mobility
pp 1-20
- By Kirsten Hastrup, Karen Fog Olwig
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Part I - Lessons from history: time, scale, and causality
pp 21-78
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1 - Leaving home: how can historic human movements inform the future?
pp 23-34
- By Carole L. Crumley
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2 - Inuit and climate change in prehistoric eastern Arctic: a perspective from Greenland
pp 35-57
- By Mikkel Sørensen
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3 - Dehumanizing the uprooted: lessons from Iceland in the Little Ice Age
pp 58-78
- By Kirsten Hastrup
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Part II - Societal responses: livelihood, vulnerability, and migration
pp 79-166
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4 - Relocation of reef and atoll island communities as an adaptation to climate change: learning from experience in Solomon Islands
pp 81-109
- By Thomas Birk
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5 - Contextualizing links between migration and environmental change in northern Ethiopia
pp 110-146
- By James Morrissey
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6 - Climate-induced migration and conflict: what are the links?
pp 147-166
- By Christian Webersik
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Part III - Moral climates: experience, expectation, and mitigation
pp 167-257
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7 - On the risks of engineering mobility to reduce vulnerability to climate change: insights from a small island state
pp 169-189
- By Jon Barnett
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8 - Mobility, climate change, and social dynamics in the Arctic: the creation of new horizons of expectation and the role of community
pp 190-213
- By Frank Sejersen
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9 - Climate change and land grab in Africa: resilience for whom?
pp 214-234
- By Quentin Gausset, Michael Whyte
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10 - Climate change, migration, and Christianity in Oceania
pp 235-257
- By Wolfgang Kempf
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Index
pp 258-263
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Contents

Climate Change and Human Mobility - Half title page
pp i-ii

Climate Change and Human Mobility - Title page
pp iii-iii

Copyright page
pp iv-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Contributors
pp vii-x

Preface and acknowledgements
pp xi-xii

Introduction: - climate change and human mobility
pp 1-20

Part I - Lessons from history: time, scale, and causality
pp 21-78

1 - Leaving home: how can historic human movements inform the future?
pp 23-34

2 - Inuit and climate change in prehistoric eastern Arctic: a perspective from Greenland
pp 35-57

3 - Dehumanizing the uprooted: lessons from Iceland in the Little Ice Age
pp 58-78

Part II - Societal responses: livelihood, vulnerability, and migration
pp 79-166

4 - Relocation of reef and atoll island communities as an adaptation to climate change: learning from experience in Solomon Islands
pp 81-109

5 - Contextualizing links between migration and environmental change in northern Ethiopia
pp 110-146

6 - Climate-induced migration and conflict: what are the links?
pp 147-166

Part III - Moral climates: experience, expectation, and mitigation
pp 167-257

7 - On the risks of engineering mobility to reduce vulnerability to climate change: insights from a small island state
pp 169-189

8 - Mobility, climate change, and social dynamics in the Arctic: the creation of new horizons of expectation and the role of community
pp 190-213

9 - Climate change and land grab in Africa: resilience for whom?
pp 214-234

10 - Climate change, migration, and Christianity in Oceania
pp 235-257

Index
pp 258-263

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