Do Migrants Degrade Coastal Environments? Migration, Natural Resource Extraction and Poverty in North Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Abstract
Recent literature on migration and the environment has identified key mediating variables
such as how migrants extract resources from the environment for their livelihoods,
the rate and efficiency of extraction, and the social and economic context within
which their extraction occurs. This paper investigates these variables in a new ecological
setting using data from coastal fishing villages in North Sulawesi, Indonesia. We
do not find as many differences between migrant and non-migrant families regarding
destructive fishing behavior, technology, and investment as might have been expected
from earlier theories. Instead, the context and timing of migrant assimilation seems
to be more important in explaining apparent associations of migration and environmental
impacts than simply migrants themselves. This finding fits well with recent literature
in the field of international migration and immigrant incorporation.
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https://hdl.handle.net/10161/6470Published Version (Please cite this version)
10.1007/s10745-005-4142-9Publication Info
Cassels, Susan; Curran, Sara R; & Kramer, Randall (2005). Do Migrants Degrade Coastal Environments? Migration, Natural Resource Extraction and
Poverty in North Sulawesi, Indonesia. Hum Ecol Interdiscip J, 33(3). pp. 329-363. 10.1007/s10745-005-4142-9. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/6470.This is constructed from limited available data and may be imprecise. To cite this
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Randall Kramer
Professor Emeritus of Environmental Economics
Before coming to Duke in 1988, he was on the faculty at Virginia Polytechnic Institute
and State University. He has held visiting positions at IUCN--The World Conservation
Union, the Economic Growth Center at Yale University, and the Indonesian Ministry
of Forestry. He has served as a consultant to the World Bank, World Health Organization
and other international organizations. He was named Duke University's Scholar Teacher
of the Year in 2004.
Kramer's research is focused on the econ

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