Understanding the relationship between environmental change and migration: The development of an effects framework based on the case of Northern Ethiopia

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1501-1510

  Morrissey, James William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Environment; Ethiopia; Migration; Typology

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DECISION MAKING; DOMINANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; MIGRATION; MOBILITY; PERCEPTION; TYPOLOGY;

ETHIOPIA;

EID: 84889079241     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.07.021     Document Type: Article

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