Geopolitics of fear and the emergence of 'climate refugees': Imaginative geographies of climate change and displacements in Bangladesh

Journal of the Indian Ocean Region

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 206-222

  Chaturvedi, Sanjay ^a   Doyle, Timothy ^b,c  

^a PANJAB UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bangladesh; Climate change; Climate refugees; Fear; Geopditics; Imaginative geographies; IPCC

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958714068     PISSN: 19480881     EISSN: 1948108X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19480881.2010.536665     Document Type: Article

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