Climate Change and Human Mobility: Challenges to the Social Sciences

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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 : Challenges to the Social Sciences.

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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
Language:eng
Publication Date:2012.

Notes

"This volume has its beginnings at an international conference in Copenhagen in the spring of 2010"--Page xi

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Description:1 online resource (xii, 278 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781283638418, 128363841X, 9781139551335, 1139551337, 9781139235815, 1139235818, 9781107028210, 1107028213
oclc:on1125417879
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 future -- REFERENCES -- 2 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 t…

Subjects

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…