Migration, Development and Environment: Migration Processes from the Perspective of Environmental Change and Development Approach at the Beginning of (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781443800389)

At the beginning of the 21st century, the linkages among migration, development and environment undoubtedly belong to the most pressing issues on the political agenda. A special focus of this book is on two of these relations - on environmentally-induced migration and on the relationship between migration processes and development. The prime aim of the book is to contribute to and extend the current knowledge on these issues. How to define environmentally-induced migration? What are the differences between environmental and economic migrants? Is environmentally-induced migration forced or voluntary and what are the outcomes of selected regional field case-studies? ? How to classify environmental migrants? Where are the regional hot-spots of environmentally-induced migration? How to systematize the knowledge on migration policies? What are the impacts of skilled migration on development? What is the role of the transnationalism paradigm in the international migration research? Is international migration trade-diverting or creating? What is wrong with the effectiveness of development aid providing? Several prominent scholars and young researchers offer their answers to these challenges in the book.

Author: Jiří Novosák
ISBN-10: 1443800384
ISBN-13: 9781443800389
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Language: English
Published: 01/06/2009
Pages: 327
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.30h x 6.00w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2009 pg. 173