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Climate and Migration: A Synthesis

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Environment, Forced Migration and Social Vulnerability

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The concern of the international community about the consequences for migration of climate change has been growing since the publication in 1990 of the first UN intergovernmental report on climate change stating ‘The gravest effects of climate change may be those on human migration as millions will be displaced’ (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC-1), 1990: 20).

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    A preliminary version of this chapter has been published online as a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Research Paper (no. 153)

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    See Kniveton et al. (2008: 29) for the complete genealogy of the term.

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Piguet, E. (2010). Climate and Migration: A Synthesis. In: Afifi, T., Jäger, J. (eds) Environment, Forced Migration and Social Vulnerability. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12416-7_6

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