Environmental Change, Adaptation and Migration

Bringing in the Region
2015. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-53890-1
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 299 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 5023 g

The contributors present empirical and theoretical insights on current debates on environmental change, adaptation and migration. While focusing on countries subject to environmental degradation, it calls for a regional perspective that recognises local actors and a systematic link between development studies and migration research.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hillmann, Felicitas

Pahl, Marie

Rafflenbeul, Birte

Sterly, Harald

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Klimawandel, Globale Erwärmung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Migrations- & Minderheitenpolitik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Soziale & wirtschaftliche Auswirkungen von Umweltfaktoren

Über Autor(innen)

Felicitas Hillmann is Professor at the Technische Universität Berlin, Germany, and leads the research unit “Regeneration of Cities” at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning in Erkner. She is Head of the Migration Unit for the project 'New regional formations: rapid environmental change and migration'. She has published in the field of international migration, migrant entrepreneurship and urban transformation.

Marie Pahl is a researcher in the 'Megacities-Megachallenge. Informal Dynamics of Global Change' programme at the University of Cologne, Germany. Her research investigates the competition for high-skilled migrants in Chinese city with a focus on urban transformation.

Birte Rafflenbeul is a researcher in the 'Megacities-Megachallenge. Informal Dynamics of Global Change' programme and a research associate at the University of Cologne. She conducts research on highly-skilled international migration and its impact on urban development in Guangzhou, China.

Harald Sterly is Scientific Coordinator of the research programme 'Megacities-Megachallenge. Informal Dynamics of Global Change' at the University of Cologne. Current research interests include translocality and social change in South Asia and Western Africa.