Global Implications of Development, Disasters and Climate Change: Responses to Displacement from Asia Pacific (Routledge Studies in Development, Displacement and Resettlement) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138057029 ISBN 13: 9781138057029

Publisher: Routledge, 2017

Synopsis

Displacements in the Asia Pacific region are escalating. The region has for decades experienced more than half of the world’s natural disasters and, in recent years, a disproportionately high share of extreme weather-related disasters, which displaced 19 million people in 2013 alone. This volume offers an innovative and thought-provoking Asia-Pacific perspective on an intensifying global problem: the forced displacement of people from their land, homes, and livelihoods due to development, disasters and environmental change.

This book draws together theoretical and multidisciplinary perspectives with diverse case studies from around the region – including China’s Three Gorges Reservoir, Japan’s Fukushima disaster, and the Pacific’s Banaba resettlement. Focusing on responses to displacement in the context of power asymmetries and questions of the public interest, the book highlights shared experiences of displacement, seeking new approaches and solutions that have potential global application. This book shows how displaced peoples respond to interlinked impacts that unravel their social fabric and productive bases, whether through sporadic protest, organised campaigns, empowered mobility or; even community-based negotiation of resettlement solutions. .

The volume will be of great interest to researchers and postgraduate students in development studies, environmental and climate change studies, anthropology, sociology, human geography, international law and human rights.

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About the Author

Susanna Price is a Research Associate in the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University (ANU), Canberra.

Jane Singer is Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138057029
• ISBN 13: 9781138057029
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 310
• Editor: Price Susanna, Singer Jane