Refugees

Looks at the complex interrelationships between forced migration, natural resource management and sustainable development. It challenges the growing rhetoric that refugees cause environmental degradation, and that environmental decline is promoting a new wave of environmental refugees. Drawing on examples from Africa, Asia and Latin America, as well as detailed case studies of the Rwandan emergency of 1994-96, and lesser known refugee movements to Guinea and Senegal in West Africa, the book argues against a neo-Malthusian view of the relationship between population, environment and migration.