Tamer Afifi
Biographic Data
| ID | 3935513 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tamer Afifi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tamer |
| FAMILY NAME | Afifi |
| SIGNATURE | AFIFI T |
| AFFILIATIONS | United Nations University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Where the rain falls: Evidence from 8 countries on how vulnerable households use migration to manage the risk of rainfall variability and food insecurity
Up to present, research relating environmental change to human mobility has found out that environmental factors can play a role in migration without being conclusive. Further, in the context of climate change, scholarly literature on migration ranges across a host of climatic stressors and geographies, making it difficult to date to solve the debate whether migration is a form of adaptation or an indicator of limits to adaptation. To address bot…
Enhancing Adaptation Options and Managing Human Mobility: The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Enhancing adaptation options & managing human mobility in the context of climate change: Role of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change This paper presents new evidence from a study on the relationship between rainfall variability, food and livelihood insecurity, and human migration in 8 countries. The findings illustrate the importance of understanding how households use migration as a risk management strategy when faced with …
Economic or Environmental Migration? The Push Factors in Niger
This paper identifies the main environmental problems in Niger and detects their impact on migration at the national and international level. It mainly focuses on droughts, soil degradation, the shrinking of Lake Chad, the Niger River problems, deforestation, and sand intrusion, as important push factors that might influence the migration decision of the people of Niger. The paper addresses the question of whether their decision to migrate is inf…
Environment, Forced Migration and Social Vulnerability
Environment, forced migration and social vulnerability
This book examines the linkages between environmental change and forced migration. This has been a headline topic during the past few years with predictions of “millions of refugees”. It presents case studies from across the world of responses to climate change as well as other environmental changes and examines the role that environmental change plays among the other factors that lead to a decision to migrate
Economic or Environmental Migration? The Push Factors in Niger
This paper identifies the main environmental problems in Niger and detects their impact on migration at the national and international level. It mainly focuses on droughts, soil degradation, the shrinking of Lake Chad, the Niger River problems, deforestation, and sand intrusion, as important push factors that might influence the migration decision of the people of Niger. The paper addresses the question of whether their decision to migrate is inf…
Enhancing Adaptation Options and Managing Human Mobility: The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Enhancing adaptation options & managing human mobility in the context of climate change: Role of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change This paper presents new evidence from a study on the relationship between rainfall variability, food and livelihood insecurity, and human migration in 8 countries. The findings illustrate the importance of understanding how households use migration as a risk management strategy when faced with …
Environment, Forced Migration and Social Vulnerability
Environment, forced migration and social vulnerability
This book examines the linkages between environmental change and forced migration. This has been a headline topic during the past few years with predictions of “millions of refugees”. It presents case studies from across the world of responses to climate change as well as other environmental changes and examines the role that environmental change plays among the other factors that lead to a decision to migrate
Economic or Environmental Migration? The Push Factors in Niger
This paper identifies the main environmental problems in Niger and detects their impact on migration at the national and international level. It mainly focuses on droughts, soil degradation, the shrinking of Lake Chad, the Niger River problems, deforestation, and sand intrusion, as important push factors that might influence the migration decision of the people of Niger. The paper addresses the question of whether their decision to migrate is inf…
Where the rain falls: Evidence from 8 countries on how vulnerable households use migration to manage the risk of rainfall variability and food insecurity
Up to present, research relating environmental change to human mobility has found out that environmental factors can play a role in migration without being conclusive. Further, in the context of climate change, scholarly literature on migration ranges across a host of climatic stressors and geographies, making it difficult to date to solve the debate whether migration is a form of adaptation or an indicator of limits to adaptation. To address bot…
Enhancing Adaptation Options and Managing Human Mobility: The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Enhancing adaptation options & managing human mobility in the context of climate change: Role of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change This paper presents new evidence from a study on the relationship between rainfall variability, food and livelihood insecurity, and human migration in 8 countries. The findings illustrate the importance of understanding how households use migration as a risk management strategy when faced with …
Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (4 works) · Climate change (3 works) · Disaster Management and Resilience (3 works) · Ecology (3 works) · Environmental planning (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Adaptation (eye) (2 works)