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In this chapter I will try to show the main environmental causes that can induce migration in North Africa. I use the term forced migration or environmentally induced migration, not environmental refugees or other terms, for describing the people displaced by environmental factors.
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Marquina, A. (2010). From a Socioeconomic Approach to Migration to the Inclusion of Environmentally Induced Migration in the Mediterranean. In: Marquina, A. (eds) Global Warming and Climate Change. Energy, Climate and the Environment Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230281257_12
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