Wishful sinking: Disappearing islands, climate refugees and cosmopolitan experimentation

Asia Pacific Viewpoint

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 47-60

  Farbotko, Carol ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate canary; Climate refugee; Disappearing islands; Island laboratory; Tuvalu

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CRITICAL ANALYSIS; ISLAND; REFUGEE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

TUVALU;

EID: 77953161771     PISSN: 13607456     EISSN: 14678373     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8373.2010.001413.x     Document Type: Article

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