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Author Corlett, David

Title Stormy weather : the challenge of climate change and displacement / David Corlett
Published Sydney, N.S.W. : UNSW Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (96 pages) : illustrations
Series Briefings
Briefings (Sydney, N.S.W.)
Contents Contents; The great flood; Tuvalunacy or the real thing?; The rainbow covenant; A neighbourly response; Brave new world; Acknowledgments; Endnotes
Summary Climate change is predicted to dislocate millions of people in regions already vulnerable to economic, political and environmental disruption. Already some communities, notably Pacific Islanders, are under direct threat of displacement due to climate-related factors. Stormy Weather looks at the effects of climate change as experienced by the people of Tuvalu, a tiny, picturesque Pacific nation. It looks at how the international community should respond to climate-related migration in Asia, the Pacific and Africa, and argues that Australia - in a region in which 60 per cent of the world's popul
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 88-96)
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Subject Human beings -- Effect of climate on.
Human beings -- Effect of climate on -- Tuvalu
Climatic changes -- Social aspects
Climatic changes -- Social aspects -- Tuvalu
Emigration and immigration.
Emigration and Immigration
Human beings -- Effect of climate on
Climatic changes -- Social aspects
Emigration and immigration
SUBJECT Tuvalu -- Emigration and immigration
Australia -- Emigration and immigration. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86007504
Subject Australia
Tuvalu
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781742230672
1742230679
1742230083
9781742230085