Environmental causes and impact of refugee movements: A critique of the current debate

Disasters

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 20-38

  Kibreab, Gaim ^a,b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FORCED MIGRATION; MAN-ENVIRONMENT RELATIONS; POPULATION DISPLACEMENT; REFUGEE IMPACT; REFUGEES;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIGRATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REFUGEE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ADULT; CHILD; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REFUGEES; RESIDENTIAL MOBILITY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 0031103911     PISSN: 03613666     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-7717.00042     Document Type: Review

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