Climate change and migration in the Pacific: options for Tuvalu and the Marshall Islands

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 1029-1038

  Constable, Amy Louise ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate change migration; Migration; Republic of the Marshall Islands; Tuvalu

Indexed keywords

EID: 84978153996     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-016-1004-5     Document Type: Article

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