Nature, society, and population displacement: towards understanding of environmental migration and social vulnerability

This work focuses on the debate surrounding population displacement and the role that environmental factors may or may not play in driving populations away from their original places of residence.In assessing the driving factors in environmental migration, the author posits that environments are not naturally given entities but human constructed. He also emphasizes that climate change is anthropogenic, and not a natural phenomenon. Further, he points out that since climate change is human caused, nature, or those features and forces characteristic of the non-human, biophysical world, therefore cannot generally be blamed for displacing people. In the light of human driven environmental changes, in particular climate change, which are expected to increasingly displace people, we therefore need to be clear about the nature and origin of the threats.