Living with floods in a mobile Southeast Asia : a political ecology of vulnerability, migration and environmental change / edited by Carl Middleton, Rebecca Elmhirst and Supang Chantavanich.

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2018.

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Carl Middleton is Assistant Professor and Director of the Center for Social Development Studies in the Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. Rebecca Elmhirst is Reader in Human Geography and DeputyHead of the School of Environment and Technologyat the University of Brighton, UK. Supang Chantavanich is Professor Emeritus at the Faculty of Political Science, Institute of Asian Studies, and adviser to the Asian Research Center for Migration, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand.

"This book contributes to a better understanding of the relationship between migration, vulnerability, resilience and social justice associated with flooding across diverse environmental, social and policy contexts in Southeast Asia. It challenges simple analyses of flooding as a singular driver of migration, and instead considers the ways in which floods figure in migration-based livelihoods and amongst already mobile populations. The book develops a conceptual framework based on a 'mobile political ecology' in which particular attention is paid to the multidimensionality, temporalities and geographies of vulnerability. Rather than simply emphasising the capacities (or lack thereof) of individuals and households, the focus is on identifying factors that instigate, manage and perpetuate vulnerable populations and places: these include the sociopolitical dynamics of floods, flood hazards and risky environments, migration and migrant-based livelihoods and the policy environments through which all of these take shape. The book is organised around a series of eight empirical urban and rural case studies from countries in Southeast Asia, where lives are marked by mobility and by floods associated with the region's monsoonal climate. The concluding chapter synthesises the insights of the case studies, and suggests future policy directions. Together, the chapters highlight critical policy questions around the governance of migration, institutionalised disaster response strategies and broader development agendas."--Provided by publisher

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