Disentangling Migration and Climate Change

Part I. Introduction

1. The Climate–Migration Nexus: A Reorientation
Thomas Faist, Jeanette Schade

Part II. Methodologies and Methods

2. Migration and Climate Change: Toward an Integrated Assessment of Sensitivity
Richard Black, Dominic Kniveton, Kerstin Schmidt-Verkerk

3. How Demographic Change and Migration Influence Community-Level Adaptation to Climate Change: Examples from Rural Eastern Ontario and Nunavut, Canada
Robert McLeman, James Ford

4. A Methodology for Assessing Patterns of Labour Migration in Mountain Communities Exposed to Water Hazards
Soumyadeep Banerjee, Jean-Yves Gerlitz, Dominic Kniveton

5. Which Household Characteristics Help Mitigate the Effects of Extreme Weather Events? Evidence from the 1998 Floods in Bangladesh
Tanvir Ahmed Uddin

Part III. Areas of Concern: Politics and Human Rights

6. Defining Environmental Migration in the Climate Change Era: Problem, Consequence or Solution?
Chloé Anne Vlassopoulos

7. Challenges and Pitfalls of Resettlement: Pacific Experiences
Volker Böge

8. Climate Change and Planned Relocation: Risks and a Proposal for Safeguards
Jeanette Schade

9. Disasters, Displacement and Protection: Challenges, Shortcomings and Ways Forward
Megan Bradley, Roberta Cohen

Part IV. Conclusion

10. Entitlements, Capabilities and Human Rights

Jeanette Schade

Keywords: Environment, Climate Change, Climate Change Management and Policy, Migration, Human Rights, Human Geography, Political Science, general