This book focuses on seven key areas of
research relating to the topic of migration, the environment and climate
change, covering issues such as data challenges, research methods, sudden
environmental and slow-onset events, and policy responses. The focus is
not limited to climate change as much of the research literature tends
to focus on migration and the wider concept of environmental change. The
book is mainly focused on the impact of environmental/climate change on
migration given the current policy interest in this issue, but it is recognized
that there is a considerable body of literature on the impact of migration
and refugee movements, on the environment.
This book offers a selective review
of key research to date on the topic of migration, the environment and
climate change within the aforementioned themes. It examines the existing
evidence with respect to the ways in which changes in the environment and
climate change are affecting the movement of people and the types of policy
responses and protection gaps which potentially exist. Furthermore, it
offers an overview of innovative approaches to measuring and collecting
data on the migration and environment nexus.