Climate change and human mobility

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This book examines general questions and particular cases of climate-change related mobility and explores their implications for the social sciences.

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Full title :Climate change and human mobility / edited by Kirsten Hastrup and Karen Fog Olwig.

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This book examines general questions and particular cases of climate-change related mobility and explores their implications for the social sciences.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2012.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge [England]
Language:eng
Publication Date:2012.

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Description:1 online resource

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:1139235818, 9781139235815, 9781283638418, 128363841X
oclc:ocn828184477
LC Classification:HB1952
Dewey Decimal:304.8

Cover; Climate Change and Human Mobility: Global Challenges to the Social Sciences; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction: climate change and human mobility; Liquid times; Climate-induced migration; Mobility and place; Mobility and time; Mobility and society; The present volume; REFERENCES; Part I Lessons from history: time, scale, and causality; 1 Leaving home: how can historic human movements inform the future?; Abstract; Always roaming; Tools for the study of migration history; Why do people move?; The longue durée at a historical intersection

Searching the past for clues to the future2 Inuit and climate change in prehistoric eastern Arctic: a perspective from Greenland; Abstract; Studying human prehistory and climate in the Arctic; Thule culture and the `core area model ́ in relation to climate change; Climate change in the eastern Arctic during Inuit prehistory; A view from north-east Greenland: the GeoArk project 2003-9; Scaling up and focusing on Inuit societal change; The initial Thule culture migration to the eastern Arctic; Breathing-hole sealing technology; The snow house

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Changement global (Environnement) -- As… Climat -- Changements climate change Climatic changes Global environmental change -- Social a… Human geography Migration intérieure -- Aspect de l'env… Migration, Internal -- Environmental as…