Environmental Refugees. / Mark Townsend.
by Townsend, Mark; SIRS Publishing, Inc.
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BookSeries: SIRS Enduring Issues 2003Article 17Environment. Publisher: Ecologist, 2002ISSN: 1522-3205;.Subject(s): United Nations. High Commissioner for Refugees | Climatic changes | Environmental degradation | Environmental refugees | Human beings -- MigrationsDDC classification: 050 Summary: "By 2050, climate change and environmental degradation could create 150 million environmental refugees. As Mark Townsend reports, it is a problem which the UN and Western governments are doing their best to ignore." (ECOLOGIST) This article examines environmental disasters such as flooding, earthquakes, droughts, toxic spills, soil erosion, deforestation and nuclear accidents which are creating an overwhelming number of refugees.
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Originally Published: Environmental Refugees, July/Aug. 2002; pp. 22-25.
"By 2050, climate change and environmental degradation could create 150 million environmental refugees. As Mark Townsend reports, it is a problem which the UN and Western governments are doing their best to ignore." (ECOLOGIST) This article examines environmental disasters such as flooding, earthquakes, droughts, toxic spills, soil erosion, deforestation and nuclear accidents which are creating an overwhelming number of refugees.
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