September 2017: 216x138: 306pp19 illustrations

Hb: 978-0-415-79072-7 | £95.00eBook: 978-1-315-14774-1

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

List of Figures. List of Maps. List of Tables and Boxes. Contributors.Preface and Acknowledgements. 1. Migration in the contextof climate change: An Introduction R. B. Bhagat and S. IrudayaRajan 2. Climate change, vulnerability and migration in India:overlapping hot spots R. B. Bhagat 3. Migrating to adapt?exploring the climate change, migration and adaptationnexus Himani Upadhyay and Divya Mohan 4. Exploringvulnerability in flood affected remittance-recipient andnon-recipient households of Upper Assam in IndiaSoumyadeep Banerjee, Dominic Kniveton, Richard Black andPartha Jyoti Das 5. Institutional response to displacementdue to chronic disasters: the Art of muddling throughRitumbra Manuvie 6. Remittances as self-insured life: Onmigration, flood and conflict in north-western PakistanGiovanna Gioli 7. Situating migration in planned andautonomous adaptation practices to climate change inBangladesh Tasneem Siddiqui, Mohammad Rashed AlamBhuiyan, Dominick Kniveton, Richard Black, Md. Towheedul Islamand Maxmilan Martin 8. Migration in response toenvironmental change: A risk perception study fromSundarban Biosphere Reserve Avijit Mistri and Bhaswati Das9. Gender processes in rural outmigration and socio-economicdevelopment in the Himalaya Prakash C. Tiwari and BhagwatiJoshi 10. Climate change, drought and vulnerability: Ahistorical narrative approach to migration from Eastern IndiaArchitesh Panda 11. Dynamics of distress seasonal migration:A Study of a drought-prone Mahabubnagar District inTelangana Vijay Korra 12. Seasonal migration from dry climaticzone: A case study of rural Maharashtra Abdul Jaleel C. P. andAparajita Chattopadhyay 13. Migrant ecology Shareena BanuC. P. 14. Spaces of Recognition of Climate Migrants Inin India:Question of Rights and Responsibilities Bratati Dey. Index

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Climate Change,Vulnerability andMigrationEdited by S. Irudaya Rajan and R. B. Bhagat

This book highlights how climate change has affectedmigration in the Indian subcontinent. Drawing on fieldresearch, it argues that extreme weather events such asfloods, droughts, cyclones, cloudbursts as well as sea-levelrise, desertification and declining crop productivity haveshown higher frequency in recent times and have depletedbio-physical diversity and the capacity of the ecosystem toprovide food and livelihood security. The volume showshow the socio-economically poor are worst affected inthese circumstances and resort to migration to survive.

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