Solastalgia: Environmentally induced distress and migration among Africa's poor due to climate change

Environment, Forced Migration and Social Vulnerability

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 57-69

  Tschakert, Petra ^a   Tutu, Raymond ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84892139289     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-12416-7_5     Document Type: Chapter

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