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Author:   S. Irudaya Rajan (Professor, Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India) ,  R. B. Bhagat (International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai, India)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge India
Weight:   0.470kg
ISBN:  

9780367345419

ISBN 10:   0367345412
Pages:   306
Publication Date:   21 May 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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List of Figures. List of Maps. List of Tables and Boxes. Contributors. Preface and Acknowledgements. 1. Migration in the context of climate change: An Introduction 2. Climate change, vulnerability and migration in India: overlapping hot spots 3. Migrating to adapt? exploring the climate change, migration and adaptation nexus 4. Exploring vulnerability in flood affected remittance-recipient and non-recipient households of Upper Assam in India 5. Institutional response to displacement due to chronic disasters: the Art of muddling through 6. Remittances as self-insured life: On migration, flood and conflict in north-western Pakistan 7. Situating migration in planned and autonomous adaptation practices to climate change in Bangladesh 8. Migration in response to environmental change: A risk perception study from Sundarban Biosphere Reserve 9. Gender processes in rural outmigration and socio-economic development in the Himalaya 10. Climate change, drought and vulnerability: A historical narrative approach to migration from Eastern India 11. Dynamics of distress seasonal migration: A Study of a drought-rone Mahabubnagar District in Telangana 12. Seasonal migration from dry climatic zone: A case study of rural Maharashtra 13. Migrant ecology 14. Spaces of Recognition of Climate Migrants Inin India: Question of Rights and Responsibilities. Index

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S. Irudaya Rajan is Professor, Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. With more than three decades of research experience, he has coordinated with K. C. Zachariah seven major migration surveys in Kerala since 1998, conducted migration surveys in Goa (2008) and Tamil Nadu (2015) and provided technical support to Gujarat (2010) and Punjab (2011) migration surveys. He is editor of the annual series ‘India Migration Report’ and the editor-in-chief of the journal Migration and Development. R. B. Bhagat is Professor and Head, Department of Migration and Urban Studies, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. He has served as Consultant to the UNESCO-UNICEF India Initiative on Migration and to the International Organisation of Migration (IOM), and Advisor to the Yale University Project on Climate Change and Communication. His research interests are in population, urbanisation, environment and migration issues.

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