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- Climate Change and Human Mobility
- Climate Change and Human Mobility
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface and acknowledgements
- Introduction: climate change and human mobility
- Part I Lessons from history: time, scale, and causality
- 1 Leaving home: how can historic human movements inform the future?
- 2 Inuit and climate change in prehistoric eastern Arctic: a perspective from Greenland
- 3 Dehumanizing the uprooted: lessons from Iceland in the Little Ice Age
- Part II Societal responses: livelihood, vulnerability, and migration
- Part III Moral climates: experience, expectation, and mitigation
- Index
1 - Leaving home: how can historic human movements inform the future?
from Part I - Lessons from history: time, scale, and causality
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2012
- Climate Change and Human Mobility
- Climate Change and Human Mobility
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface and acknowledgements
- Introduction: climate change and human mobility
- Part I Lessons from history: time, scale, and causality
- 1 Leaving home: how can historic human movements inform the future?
- 2 Inuit and climate change in prehistoric eastern Arctic: a perspective from Greenland
- 3 Dehumanizing the uprooted: lessons from Iceland in the Little Ice Age
- Part II Societal responses: livelihood, vulnerability, and migration
- Part III Moral climates: experience, expectation, and mitigation
- Index
Summary
This chapter offers an overview of the history of human migration, conditions pertaining to past migrations, and the types of evidence that allow their study. The importance of scales of time and space is illustrated by ‘standing still’ for a thousand years at a busy crossroads in Europe, and observing the emergence of new social forms. How can these observations help to anticipate and formulate responses to contemporary population movements?
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- Climate Change and Human MobilityChallenges to the Social Sciences, pp. 23 - 34Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012
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