Overview
Introduces a comprehensive approach to developing policies and practices designed to prevent, manage, and mitigate climate-related population displacement
Demonstrates how far our understanding of the phenomenon and efforts to address population displacement has come in the past decade alone by focusing on recent examples
Highlights how climate refugees now outnumber refugees fleeing persecution and violence by more than three to one
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Acute Climate-Related Events
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Long-Term Climate-Related Events
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Responses to Climigration
Keywords
- climate refugees
- the next wave of migration
- climate change and international security
- environmental disasters
- sustainability development goals
- climate and civil conflicts
- mass migration to Europe
- Hurricane Maria and Puerto Rico
- displacement due to wildfires
- disaster recovery and response
- public health preparedness
- migration policy
- global climate change and health
- population displacement
- global health
- climate-related displacement
- climate change
About this book
This timely text examines the causes and consequences of population displacement related to climate change in the recent past, the present, and the near future. First and foremost, this book includes an examination of patterns of population displacement that have occurred or are currently underway. Second, the book introduces a three-tier framework for both understanding and responding to the public health impacts of climate-related population displacement. It illustrates the interrelations between impacts on the larger physical and social environment that precipitates and results from population displacement and the social and health impacts of climate-related migration. Third, the book contains first-hand accounts of climate-related population displacement and its consequences, in addition to reviews of demographic data and reviews of existing literature on the subject.
Topics explored among the chapters include:
- Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans
- Hurricane Maria and Puerto Rico
- The California Wildfires
- Fleeing Drought: The Great Migration to Europe
- Fleeing Flooding: Asia and the Pacific
- Fleeing Coastal Erosion: Kivalina and Isle de Jean Charles
Reviews
“The study is well-sourced in a large secondary literature. … It supports ‘strategies for preventing, managing, and mitigating climate-related population displacement and its effects through the development and maintenance of partnerships involving academics, policy makers, service providers, communities, and climigrants themselves.’” (G.McN, Population and Development Review, Vol. 46 (3), September, 2020)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Global Climate Change, Population Displacement, and Public Health
Book Subtitle: The Next Wave of Migration
Authors: Lawrence A. Palinkas
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41890-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-41889-2Published: 08 May 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-41892-2Published: 08 May 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-41890-8Published: 07 May 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 234
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
Topics: Public Health, Migration, Climate Change