Affiliation:
1. Central University of Jammu, India
2. Jagdishprasad Jhabarmal Tibrewala University, India
Abstract
This book chapter provides a comprehensive analysis of the intricate interplay between climate change, its impacts on human populations, and the resulting forced migrations. The chapter explores the complex relationship between climate change and climate change induced human migration, thereby unraveling impacts of affected populations. In the beginning the chapter describes climate change, its causes and consequences. The chapter than unravels relationship between climate change and migration. The chapter further describes various climatic factors that cause migrations. Towards the end the chapter describes a case study of a climate induced migration that took place in the Carteret Islands in the South Pacific due to salt water intrusion as of result of rising sea level, that in turn rendered agricultural land infertile.