Climate change-induced migration in the Pacific Region: Sudden crisis and long-term developments

Geographical Journal

Volumn 175, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 171-180

  Locke, Justin T ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Analysis; Climate change; Kiribati; Migrants; Migration; Tuvalu

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX; INTERNAL MIGRATION; MIGRANTS EXPERIENCE; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SMALL ISLAND STATE; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; UNEVEN DEVELOPMENT;

KIRIBATI; MICRONESIA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; TUVALU;

EID: 70149106817     PISSN: 00167398     EISSN: 14754959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4959.2008.00317.x     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Asian Development Bank 2006 Republic of Kiribati integrated land and population development program on Kiritimas Island Technical Assistance Report Project Number 39641
2. Asian Development Bank 2007 Kiribati fact sheet (http://www.adb.org/ kiribati) Accessed 14 May 2008
3. Ayers J and Huq S 2007 Critical list: The 100 nations most vulnerable to climate change International Institute for Environment and Development Sustainable Development Opinion
4. Below R, Guha-Sapir D and Hoyios P 2005 International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies world disasters report: Annex 1 - disaster data
5. Government of Kiribati 2005 Climate change adaptation strategy (CCA) Ministry of Operational Plans, August
6. Government of Tuvalu 2006 Census of population and housing Central Statistics Division
7. Hunt C 1996 Property rights and environmental management on Pacific atolls International Journal of Social Economics 23 221-34
8. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 1990 1st Assessment report United Nations Environmental Programme
9. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2001 3rd Assessment report United Nations Environmental Programme
10. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2007 4th Assessment report United Nations Environmental Programme
11. Kallmeyer N 2008 Climate change hitting women harder? Medill Reports Northwestern University
12. Kiribati National Statistics Office 2005 Social statistics, demographic indicators - key demographic indicators from census of population and housing
13. Kiribati National Statistics Office 2006 Social statistics, demographic indicators, summary of main indicators from census and of population and housing
14. Kiribati National Statistics Office 1985-2005 Social statistics, census of population and housing, historical population data by island
15. Kiribati National Statistics Office 1998-2003 Environment statistics - average rainfall
16. Lundsgaarde P 1968 The strategy and etiology of Gilbertese property disputes American Anthropologist 70 86-93
17. Lutz W, MacKellar F and O'Neill B 2001 Population and climate change International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
18. Moore E J and Smith J W 1995 Climate change and migration from Oceania: implications for Australia, New Zealand and the United States of America Population and Environment 17 105-22
19. Myers N 1993 Environmental refugees in a globally warmed world BioScience 43 752-61
20. New Zealand Office for Immigration 2008 Recognized seasonal employer policy Employment agreements (http://www.immigration.govt.nz/community/ stream/employ/rse/Employmentagreements.htm) Accessed 22 June 2008
21. Parks B and Timmons R 2006 Globalization, vulnerability to climate change, and perceived injustice Department of Sociology College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
22. Patel S 2006 A sinking feeling Nature Publishing Group 440 732-6
23. Project Coordinator, Kiribati Adaptation Project II (KAPII) 2008 Unofficial reports based on information presented in interview on 27 May 2008
24. Soderblom J 2008 Climate change: Is it the greatest security threat of the 21st century? Security Solutions No. 52, March/April
25. South Pacific Commission 2001 Pacific islands populations data sheet, demography/population Programme South Pacific Commission, Nomea, New Caledonia
26. South Pacific Commission 1995 Population Statistics Statistical Bulletin No. 42 Noumea, New Caledonia
27. Thomas F 2002 Self-reliance in Kiribati: Contrasting views of agricultural and fisheries production The Geographical Journal 168 163-77
28. Thomas F 2003 Kiribati: Some aspect of human ecology, some forty years later National Museum of Natural History Atoll Research Bulletin No. 501 Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC
29. UNESCO 1999 International hydrological programme groundwater recharge in low coral islands Bonriki, South Tarawa, Republic of Kiribati - issues, traditions and conflicts in groundwater use and management Technical Documents in Hydrology No. 25, Paris
30. United Nations Development Programme 2006 Pacific human development report
31. Whitty J 2003 All the disappearing islands Mother Jones Jul/Aug Research Library Core 28 4
32. World Bank 2006 Kiribati adaptation project - implementation phase