Environmental Change, Adaptation and Migration

Type Book Section - Migration and Social Protection as Adaptation in Response to Climate-Related Stressors: The Case of Zacatecas in Mexico
Title Environmental Change, Adaptation and Migration
Author(s)
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2015
Page numbers 80-97
Publisher Springer
URL http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9781137538918_5
Abstract
Migration in the context of climate change has recently been addressed in different ways and with a particular focus on vulnerable people. Special attention has thereby been paid to rural areas in developing countries (UNDP, 2007/08). Shifting away from assumptions of a linear relationship, which postulate that climate change inevitably leads to different forms of migration, more elaborated approaches argue that the link between climate change and migration is complex. Additionally, it is stated that different forms of climate-related stressors lead to different forms of human mobility, and that migration in the context of climate change can manifest in two forms: as a forced coping and a “voluntary” adaptation strategy, depending on internal and external preconditions (Foresight, 2011).

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