Data · dataset · 2026
Environmental refugees: myth or reality?
Listed in ZivaHub and Deakin Research Online and DMU Figshare — shown once because both records carry DOI 10.25446/oxford.33359679.v1
This paper, though, is concerned with a third group, who although their case for consideration has been somewhat sidelined in recent years, nonetheless represent an important group of interest to many policy-makers at international level: 'environmental refugees'.
Description
Estimates of the number of 'environmental refugees' in the world vary widely, as do definitions and typologies of such flows. The term was first popularised by Lester Brown of the Worldwatch Institute in the 1970s, but perhaps the most quoted contributions on the subject are those of El-Hinnawi (1985) and Jacobson (1988).
The latter's estimate of 10 million environmental refugees has been repeated by numerous authors, albeit without independent verification of its accuracy.
Links
Where it is published
- DOI doi.org/10.25446/oxford.33359679.v1 ↗
DOI / persistent id · from zivahub uct ac za
Catalogue records · 1
- OAI-PMH record api.figshare.com/v2/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&identifier=oai%3Af… ↗
metadata API · from zivahub uct ac za
Topics
- From keywords
- Earth & Environmental Science · Earth & Environmental Science · Earth & Environmental Science · Humanities · Humanities · Humanities · International humanitarian and human rights law · International humanitarian and human rights law · International humanitarian and human rights law · Migration, asylum and refugee law · Migration, asylum and refugee law · Migration, asylum and refugee law · Social Science · Social Science · Social Science
Provenance · 3 source records, 19 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZivaHub | oai:figshare.com:article/33359679 | 13 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Deakin Research Online | oai:figshare.com:article/33359679 | 13 d ago | JSON v1 |
| DMU Figshare | oai:figshare.com:article/33359679 | 13 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
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| concepts[field].anzsrc:field:480307 | mapping · dro deakin edu au | vocabulary-mapper@1.0.0 | keywords['INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW'] |
| concepts[field].anzsrc:field:480307 | mapping · figshare dmu ac uk | vocabulary-mapper@1.0.0 | keywords['INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW'] |
| concepts[field].anzsrc:field:480704 | mapping · zivahub uct ac za | vocabulary-mapper@1.0.0 | keywords['Migration, asylum and refugee law'] |
| concepts[field].anzsrc:field:480704 | mapping · figshare dmu ac uk | vocabulary-mapper@1.0.0 | keywords['Migration, asylum and refugee law'] |
| concepts[field].anzsrc:field:480704 | mapping · dro deakin edu au | vocabulary-mapper@1.0.0 | keywords['Migration, asylum and refugee law'] |
| concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmental | mapping · dro deakin edu au | connector:dro_deakin_edu_au@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmental | mapping · zivahub uct ac za | connector:zivahub_uct_ac_za@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmental | mapping · figshare dmu ac uk | connector:figshare_dmu_ac_uk@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:humanities | mapping · dro deakin edu au | connector:dro_deakin_edu_au@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:humanities | mapping · zivahub uct ac za | connector:zivahub_uct_ac_za@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:humanities | mapping · figshare dmu ac uk | connector:figshare_dmu_ac_uk@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:social-science | mapping · figshare dmu ac uk | connector:figshare_dmu_ac_uk@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:social-science | mapping · dro deakin edu au | connector:dro_deakin_edu_au@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:social-science | mapping · zivahub uct ac za | connector:zivahub_uct_ac_za@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · zivahub uct ac za | connector:zivahub_uct_ac_za@1.0.0 | /metadata/dc/description |
| license_text | source · zivahub uct ac za | connector:zivahub_uct_ac_za@1.0.0 | |
| publication_date | source · zivahub uct ac za | connector:zivahub_uct_ac_za@1.0.0 | |
| title | source · zivahub uct ac za | connector:zivahub_uct_ac_za@1.0.0 | /metadata/dc/title |