Max Martin

Climate, Environmental Hazards and Migration in Bangladesh

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book traces the linkages between climate and environment-related hazards and migration, and attempts to dispel some popular myths. While the book takes Bangladesh as a case study, it will address the international debate over the linkages between climate, environment and migration, and highlight its conceptual and empirical dimensions. It p

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 345g
• ISBN-13: 9780367667672
• ISBN-10: 0367667673
• Artikelnr.: 60022271

Autorenporträt

Max Martin is a geographer focusing on people's responses to climate and environment. He studied at Universities of Kerala, Oxford and Sussex. He has engaged in research at the Institute of Development Studies, UK, and International Centre for Climate Change and Development, Bangladesh; and taught human ecology at University College London. Currently he is a research associate at Sussex, developing a marine weather forecast system called Radio Monsoon for artisanal fishers of the Arabian Sea.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Bangladesh: a hotspot of climate change 3. Apocalypse
now? Alarm, skepticism and evidence in the climate-migration debate 4. Stay
or move? Migration decisions amidst uncertainties 5. Climate, environment
or poverty? Statistical analysis of factors that drive migration 6.
Removing roadblocks: policy challenges in making migration an adaptation
strategy 7. The song of the road: weaving together the migration story