Environmental change and migration: Methodological considerations from ground-breaking global survey

Population and Environment

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 3-27

  Warner, Koko ^a  

^a UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Climate change; EACH FOR; Environmentally induced migration; Evidence based research; Methodology

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EUROPEAN COMMISSION; FORCED MIGRATION; SUSTAINABILITY;

EID: 80053451275     PISSN: 01990039     EISSN: 15737810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11111-011-0150-4     Document Type: Article

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