Type

Book section

Author(s)

Mistri, A.
Das, B.

Title

Environmental Migration and Development Deficit: A Debate

Date

2020

Book Title

Environmental Change, Livelihood Issues and Migration: Sundarban Biosphere Reserve, India

Publisher

Springer Singapore

Abstract

Environmental migration suffers not only methodological abstruseness and data limitations but also definitional ambiguity. It is a very policy concern that attribution of environmental migrants to a group without assessing the individual effect size of the stressors of migration and nexus among them plays down the seriousness of real issues vis-à-vis evoking the politics – national and international. Nowadays, it is a very conscious political trick to relate the natural calamities with climate change and hush up the development deficits. Climate change is a matter of concern or hype to hide the shortfall of adequate adaptive measures as well as achieving the unethical political intentions; it is needed to be justified very consciously.

Citation

Mistri, A. and B. Das (2020). Environmental Migration and Development Deficit: A Debate. Environmental Change, Livelihood Issues and Migration: Sundarban Biosphere Reserve, India. Singapore, Springer Singapore: 161-165. URL : https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8735-7_9.