Living with Floods in a Mobile Southeast Asia

A Political Ecology of Vulnerability, Migration and Environmental Change
Herausgeber: Middleton, Carl; Chantavanich, Supang; Elmhirst, Rebecca

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume contributes to a better understanding of the relationship between migration, vulnerability and resilience associated with flooding across diverse environmental, social and policy contexts in Southeast Asia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 517g
• ISBN-13: 9781138793248
• ISBN-10: 1138793248
• Artikelnr.: 41855935

Autorenporträt

Carl Middleton is Assistant Professor and Director of the Center for Social Development Studies in the Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. Rebecca Elmhirst is Reader in Human Geography and Deputy Head of the School of Environment and Technology at the University of Brighton, UK. Supang Chantavanich is Professor Emeritus at the Faculty of Political Science, Institute of Asian Studies, and adviser to the Asian Research Center for Migration, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Migration and floods in Southeast Asia: A mobile political ecology of
vulnerability, resilience and social justice 2. Living with the flood: A
political ecology of fishing, farming, and migration around Tonle Sap Lake,
Cambodia 3. Migrants seeking out and living with floods: A case study of
Mingalar Kwet Thet settlement, Yangon, Myanmar 4. Risky spaces, vulnerable
households, and mobile lives in Laos: Quo vadis flooding and migration? 5.
Living with and against floods in Bangkok and Thailand's central plain 6.
Generating Vulnerability to Floods: Poor Urban Migrants and the State in
Metro Manila, Philippines 7. Responses to Flooding: Migrants' Perspectives
in Hanoi, Vietnam 8. Flooding in a city of migrants: ethnicity and
entitlement in Bandar Lampung, Indonesia 9. Vulnerabilities of Local People
and Migrants due to Flooding in Malaysia: Identifying Gaps for Better
Management 10. Floods and migrants: Synthesis and implications for policy