The atlas of environmental migration

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Forewords -- Supporting environmental migrants: A new imperative -- Climate change: The ultimate injustice -- A myriad of opportunities -- Acknowledgements -- The authors -- List of experts consulted -- List of abbreviations and acronyms -- Current migration and environmental migration -- Introduction -- A long history -- A political issue -- A world in motion -- Geography of research -- Quantifying and forecasting -- Disasters and displacement -- Forced or voluntary? -- Trajectories -- Time frames -- Return migration -- Relocation -- Immobility -- Amenity migration -- Factors of environmental migration -- Introduction -- Geophysical disasters -- Floods, storms and landslides -- Droughts, extreme temperatures and wildfires -- Ecosystem degradation -- Sea-level rise and coastal risks -- Industrial accidents -- Infrastructure and land grabbing -- The regional impacts of climate change -- A multi-causal phenomenon -- Individual factors -- Challenges and opportunities -- Introduction -- Disruption of traditional migration strategies -- Circular migration -- Development, adaptation and risk management -- Demographic pressure in at-risk areas -- Urbanization -- Security and conflict -- Managing mass displacement -- Protecting human rights -- Individual coping strategies -- Gender and migration -- Governance and policy responses -- Introduction -- The cost of environmental migration -- Funding action -- International law -- Building a new legal framework -- Regional legal frameworks -- At the crossroads of international agendas -- Regional policy processes -- International organizations -- Migration and national adaptation policies -- Linking mobility and disaster management -- Linking migration, adaptation and development -- Glossary -- Bibliography and sources -- Photo credits -- Index.