Climate Change, Vulnerability and Migration

S. Irudaya Rajan, "Climate Change, Vulnerability and Migration"
English | ISBN: 0367345412 | 2019 | 320 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book highlights how climate change has affected migration in the Indian subcontinent. Drawing on field research, it argues that extreme weather events such as floods, droughts, cyclones, cloudbursts as well as sea-level rise, desertification and declining crop productivity have shown higher frequency in recent times and have depleted bio-physical diversity and the capacity of the ecosystem to provide food and livelihood security. The volume shows how the socio-economically poor are worst affected in these circumstances and resort to migration to survive.