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auteur-s

- Lonergan Steve

résumé/extrait

The unhcr in the 1993 state of the world’s refugees, identified four root causes of refugee flows. These Were : political instability ; economic tensions ; ethnic conflict ; and environmental degradation. The claim That environmental degradation was a root cause of refugee flows was a direct response to a growing Number of articles positing a link between environmental degradation and population movement, and a recognition That the numbers of displaced persons internationally was much larger than indicated by the statistics on Refugee flows.

à propos

Environmental Change and Security Project Report, Issue 4, (Spring), pp. 5-15. (1998). Environmental Change and Security Program (ECSP), Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars

Date

1998

Langue

anglais

url de référence

http://www.wilsoncenter.org/topics/pubs/report4b.pdf