Type

Book section

Author(s)

Adamo, Susana B

Title

Environmentally-Related International Displacement: Following in Graeme Hugo’s Footsteps

Date

2012

Editor(s)

Graeme Hugo
Mohammad Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi
Ellen Percy Kraly

Book Title

Demography of Refugee and Forced Migration

Publisher

Demography of Refugee and Forced Migration

pp

201-216

Abstract

Since Graeme Hugo published his seminal paper on “Environmental concerns and international migration” in 1996, interest on the topic has been on the rise, accelerating sharply in the last decade amidst renewed concerns about the consequences of global environmental change for human well-being and population mobility, and the idea that environmental displacement has the potential for triggering governance and security challenges and conflicts. Using three of Hugo’s works for guidance, this chapter examines international environmentally-related displacement from a population perspective, addressing definitional issues, briefly reviewing recent trends and developments in conceptual frameworks and research, and offering selected examples of the inclusion of this highly conflictive topic in different policy forums.

Citation

Adamo S.B. (2018) Environmentally-Related International Displacement: Following in Graeme Hugo’s Footsteps. In: Hugo G., Abbasi-Shavazi M., Kraly E. (eds) Demography of Refugee and Forced Migration. International Studies in Population, vol 13 (pp 201-216). Springer, Cham. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-67147-5_10