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DOI	10.1186/s40878-019-0163-1
	Migration as one of several adaptation strategies for environmental limitations in Tunisia: evidence from El Faouar
	Sobczak-Szelc, Karolina; Fekih, Naima
通讯作者	Sobczak-Szelc, K (corresponding author), Univ Warsaw, Ctr Migrat Res, Pasteura 7, PL-02097 Warsaw, Poland.
来源期刊	COMPARATIVE MIGRATION STUDIES
EISSN	2214-594X
出版年	2020
卷号	8 期号:1
英文摘要	Water scarcity and management of this problem are increasingly acknowledged in development policies as well as in adaptation and migration discourse. In South Mediterranean countries, insufficient water supplies in oases are the biggest limitation on yields of sufficient quantity and quality and increase in arable land, in short, the development of agriculture. Insufficient income from agriculture, when it is the main source of revenue, can push people to migrate. However, migration does not have to be the measure of last resort. Proper adaption to this limitation, including proactive migration, can reduce forced movements from this region in the future. The main aim of this paper is to identify and analyse household strategies, including migration, to cope with and adapt to the impact of environmental changes and limitations on agricultural development in the South Mediterranean. This paper is based on field research carried out in the El Faouar oasis area in Tunisia using a mixed-method approach. The results show that the inhabitants of El Faouar must cope with unforeseen crop destruction limiting their daily expenses by selling livestock or, in years of drought, migrating to look for additional sources of income. The results also show that local households try to increase their resistance to climate change, environmental limitations, and permanent migration by developing their agricultural capacity, provided they have additional resources from such endeavours as work outside El Faouar or remittances. Moreover, migration has become part of a wider process of socio-economic transformation in which people leave in order to cope with or adapt to environmental changes.
英文关键词	Adaptation strategies Coping strategies Water scarcity Environmental migration Mediterranean migration Kebili Tunisia
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	gold
收录类别	SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000701902000001
WOS关键词	CLIMATE ; FRAMEWORK
WOS类目	Demography
WOS研究方向	Demography
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/369247
作者单位	[Sobczak-Szelc, Karolina] Univ Warsaw, Ctr Migrat Res, Pasteura 7, PL-02097 Warsaw, Poland; [Fekih, Naima] Reg Direct Social Affairs Kebili, Kebili, Tunisia
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Sobczak-Szelc, Karolina,Fekih, Naima. Migration as one of several adaptation strategies for environmental limitations in Tunisia: evidence from El Faouar[J],2020,8(1).
APA	Sobczak-Szelc, Karolina,&Fekih, Naima.(2020).Migration as one of several adaptation strategies for environmental limitations in Tunisia: evidence from El Faouar.COMPARATIVE MIGRATION STUDIES,8(1).
MLA	Sobczak-Szelc, Karolina,et al."Migration as one of several adaptation strategies for environmental limitations in Tunisia: evidence from El Faouar".COMPARATIVE MIGRATION STUDIES 8.1(2020).