Throughout the world, vast areas of land are becoming unfit for human habitation - unsustainable land-use practices have reduced carrying capacities throughout the Third World and high-risk technologies have sometimes resulted in accidents such as at Chernobyl, leaving whole regions uninhabitable. The growing numbers of people fleeing from environmental decline adds a new dimension to an already controversial global refugee problem, and the author examines this under the following sub-headings: in search of fertile soils; unnatural disasters; home is where the toxics are; and the threat of inundation. -after Author

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Disasters human habitation land-use practices fertile soils high risk technology unsustainable land-use practice refugee problem environmental decline man and environment Refugees