Global Environment. A Journal of History and Natural and Social Sciences n. 9 - 2012

Introduction
Chasing a Ghost? Environmental Change and Migration in History
Uwe Lübken

 
Research articles

Post-Disaster Migrations and Returns in Sicily: The 1908 Messina Earthquake and the 1968 Belice Valley Earthquake
Giacomo Parrinello
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Environmental Migration as Planned Livelihood Among the Rebaris of Western Rajasthan, India
Vipul Singh
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Healthy Country, Unhealthy City: Population Growth, Migration, and Urban Sanitation in Lima and Manila
David Soll
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Migration as a Failure to Adapt? How Andean People Cope with Environmental Restrictions and Climate Variability
Annelies Zoomers
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The Desert and the Garden: Climate as Attractor and Obstacle in the Settlement History of the Western United States
Lawrence Culver
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“All That Country Will Be Taken Up by the Thrifty Settler”: Migration, Environment, and the Cutover Lands of Minnesota, USA from the 1890s to the 1930s
Kevin C. Brown
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Interviews
Displacement, Migration, and Environmental Change
An Interview with Anthony Oliver-Smith
conducted by Uwe Lübken and Franz Mauelshagen
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