Bogumil Terminski Environmentally-Induced Displacement ... - Cedem

PART THREE:COMMENTS AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTESThe aim of the following part of the work is a bibliographic review of literature on the impactof environmental changes upon the various forms of displacement. Of course, thebibliographic summary developed by the present author is by no means exhaustive. However,according to the conception presented in the preface, it does reflect the most representativeand significant directions of research over the past few decades in the field of environmentaldeterminants of internal displacement. The intensification of scientific discourse in this fieldobserved in recent years means that even a brief and cursory attempt to provide a full pictureof the current research is extremely difficult, if not impossible. Let us remember thatenvironmental motivations are, in addition to economic and political factors, one of the keydeterminants of decisions about place of residence. These factors constituted (and in some