Wrathall, D.J. (2012) Migration amidst social-ecological regime shift: The search for stability in Garífuna Villages of Northern Honduras. Human Ecology. 14p.
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Abstract
Environmental migration, in its different forms, is an aspiration toward stability domains amidst dynamic system change. This paper assesses critical system relationships that couple human and natural systems and change in due course of a regime shift affecting Garífuna villages in Northern Honduras. The specified resilience of these relationships influences the course that migration takes after a flooding event. In impacted villages, migration is a mechanism for demographic fragmentation, ‘downgrades’ livelihood chains, and reinforces a class divide. Villages systems that experience a shift to uninhabitable and unproductive state spaces become shallow stability domains and consequently, perpetual exporters of migrants over an extended period of time. In the end, migration itself is a cascading aspect of a regime shift that is both ecological and social, forced and chosen
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Regime shift – Environmental migration – Flooding – Displacement – Social-ecological systems Honduras |
| Author Affiliation: | University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA |
| Subjects: | Social Sciences |
| Divisions: | General |
| Depositing User: | Ms K Syamalamba |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Jul 2012 10:43 |
| Last Modified: | 05 Jul 2012 10:43 |
| Official URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10745-012-9501-8 |
| URI: | http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/6588 |
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