ISSUE47: SEPTEMBER-DECEMBER 2007
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Environmental migration essay a UNU-EHS team effort
Four staff members of UNU Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) worked together to produce the latest edition of the institute's publication InterSecTions in an interdicsciplinary collaboration which, according to EHS director Janos Bogardi, reflects the complex nature of the subject – environmental migration.
Control, Adapt or Flee: How to Face Environmental Migration? is the first issue of InterSection written by a team: Fabrice Renaud, Janos J. Bogardi, Olivia Dun and Koko Warner. All authors are staff members of UNU-EHS.
The interdisciplinary characteristics of InterSecTions are reflected in the academic background of the authors who have degrees in disciplines as diverse as soil science, civil engineering, refugee studies and economics.
The complex subject of this InterSecTions on environmental migration underlines the need to access it from different viewpoints, to follow up the chain of environmental deteriorations like land degradation, climate change, or sudden onset of hazard events. Potential control measures to contain the damage or rehabilitate ecosystems and the physical environment, the attempt of society as a whole and individuals to adapt to changed realities are the next steps. Once these measures did not come forth or failed nothing is left but to flee.
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