Gregory White

Climate Change and Migration

Security and Borders in a Warming World

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Climate Change and Migration shows how global warming's impact on international relations has been significant, enhancing the security regimes in not only the advanced economies of the North Atlantic, but in the states that serve as transit points between the most advanced and most desperate nations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 154mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 269g
• ISBN-13: 9780199794836
• ISBN-10: 0199794839
• Artikelnr.: 33372175

Autorenporträt

Professor of Government, Smith College

Inhaltsangabe

* Table of Contents
* Preface
* List of Acronyms
* Introduction
* 1) Climate-Induced Migration: an Essentially Contested Concept
* 2) Scope and Dimensions: Sahelian and sub-Saharan African Migration
to Europe
* 3) The "Securitization" of Climate-Induced Migration
* 4) Transit States and the Thickening of Borders
* 5) Pulling Back the Curtain on the Security Oz: Multilateral
Governance and Genuine Sustainability in a Warming World
* Bibliography
* Index