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Climate refugees / [Collectif Argos ; introductions by Hubert Reeves and Jean Jouzel].

Summary:

"According to the United Nations, some 150 million people will become climate refugees by 2050. The journalists and photographers of Collectif Argos have spent four years seeking out the first wave of people displaced by the consequences of climate change. Using the massive 2,500-page report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as their guide, these photographers and writers pinpointed nine locales around the world in which global warming has had a measurable impact. In Climate Refugees, they take us to these places-- from the dust bowl that was once Lake Chad to the melting permafrost in Alaska-- offering a first-hand look in words and photographs at the devastating effects of rising global temperatures on the daily lives of ordinary people"--publisher's web site.

Record details

ISBN: 9780262514392 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0262514397 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description: 349 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2010.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Originally published in French as: Réfugiés climatiques. Gollion : Infolio, 2007.

Statement of responsibility from cover.

Formatted Contents Note:

From global warming to climate refugees -- United States: Alaska, the Kigiqtaamiut in jeopardy -- Bangladesh: Sundarbans, the great overflow -- Chad: Blarigui, low tide in Lake Chad -- Indian Ocean: Maldives, an archipelago in peril -- United States: Gulf Coast, farewell to the Big Easy -- Germany: Halligen, sentries on the North Sea -- China: Longbaoshan, the wrath of the Yellow Dragon -- Pacific Ocean: Tuvalu, Polynesian requiem -- Nepal: Himalayas, lost horizons.