Nature, society, and population displacement : toward an understanding of environmental migration and social vulnerability / Anthony Oliver-Smith
2009
详细记录
标题Nature, society, and population displacement : toward an understanding of environmental migration and social vulnerability / Anthony Oliver-Smith Intersections no. 8
作者Oliver-Smith, Anthony
UN University
UN University. Institute for Environment and Human Security
Munich Re Foundation
UN University
UN University. Institute for Environment and Human Security
Munich Re Foundation
日期Bonn, Germany : UN University, December 2009
描述
36 p. : ill., tables, graphs
备注
This work focuses on the debate surrounding population displacement and the role that environmental factors may or may not play in driving populations away from their original places of residence.In assessing the driving factors in environmental migration, the author posits that environments are not naturally given entities but human constructed. He also emphasizes that climate change is anthropogenic, and not a natural phenomenon. Further, he points out that since climate change is human caused, nature, or those features and forces characteristic of the non-human, biophysical world, therefore cannot generally be blamed for displacing people. In the light of human driven environmental changes, in particular climate change, which are expected to increasingly displace people, we therefore need to be clear about the nature and origin of the threats.
国际标准图书编号/国际标准期刊编号
9783939923350 (e-ISBN)
9783939923343
1814-6430
9783939923343
1814-6430