'Environmental refugees': Key debates and the contributions of geographers

Geography Compass

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 861-871

  Gill, Nick ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; FORCED MIGRATION; NATURAL DISASTER; REFUGEE;

EID: 77956669888     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17498198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-8198.2010.00336.x     Document Type: Review

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