Climate Change and Migration: Security and Borders in a Warming World

by Gregory White

Book Overview

In the modern era, two types of international migration have consumed our attention: politically induced migration to flee war, genocide, and instability, and migration for economic reasons. Recently, though, another force has generated a new wave of refugees-global warming. Climate change has altered terrains and economies throughout the tropical regions of the world, from sub-Saharan Africa to Central America to South and Southeast Asia. In Climate...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199794839
• ISBN13: 9780199794836
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"