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Environmental migrations in Central Asia: a multifaceted approach to the issue

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  • Suzy Blondin

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Increasingly, studies are considering Central Asia a ‘hot spot’ of climate change and a region prone to environmental migrations. Growing aridity and the shrinking of glaciers may have important impacts on food security, health, human security and infrastructure in the region and compel people to move. Drawing on the literature on environmental issues in Central Asia and on interviews conducted in the Kuhistoni-Badakhshan Autonomous Region of Tajikistan, this article provides a literature survey on environmental migrations in the region and positions Central Asia in the current debates within the broad environmental migrations literature. The article shows that environmental issues can stand out as an important push factor for out-migration in Central Asia, highlights the important role of the Soviet heritage of environmental management as well as of post-Soviet socio-economic transformations in understanding these issues, and discusses possible adaptation strategies.

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  • Suzy Blondin, 2019. "Environmental migrations in Central Asia: a multifaceted approach to the issue," Central Asian Survey, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 38(2), pages 275-292, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ccasxx:v:38:y:2019:i:2:p:275-292
    DOI: 10.1080/02634937.2018.1519778
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    1. Olzhas Turemuratov & Bibigul Byulegenova & Sergey Pogodin & Marina Onuchko & Roza Nurtazina, 2024. "Urbanization Trends in Central Asian Countries: Aspects of Extensive and Intensive Agglomeration Growth," Public Organization Review, Springer, vol. 24(3), pages 963-986, September.

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