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This chapter compliments that of Chap. 4 in examining the applicability of new spatial and temporal paradigms, and the use of Bayesian Network analysis, for interpreting the history of indentured labour migration in the southwest Indian Ocean World (IOW). It does so in the context of human-environment interaction. A core element of the environmental side of this relationship was the monsoon system of winds and currents that was of fundamental importance in shaping the agricultural, migration, and trading regimes of the IOW. Other major environmental factors included El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO), cyclonic activity, and volcanism. At the same time, human activity has indelibly impacted the environment. Our findings reveal the significance chiefly of push and pull factors related to the climate and economic incentives to migration in both Madagascar and Mauritius.
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O. Pourret, P. Naïm, and B.G. Marcot, Bayesian Networks (Chichester, UK: John Wiley, 2008).
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J.P. Arroyo-Mora, G. Campbell, and M. Kalacska, ‘A multidisciplinary approach for studying human-environment interactions in the Indian Ocean World history’, paper submitted to the Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies (2017).
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K. Klein Goldewijk, A. Beusen, M. de Vos, and G. van Drecht, ‘The HYDE 3.1 spatially explicit database of human induced land use change over the past 12,000 years’, Global Ecology and Biogeography 20, no. 1 (2011): 73–86.
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J.L. Gergis and A.M. Fowler, ‘A history of ENSO events since A.D. 1525: implications for future climate change’, Climatic Change 92, no. 3 (2009): 343–87.
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Arroyo-Mora, J.P., G. Campbell, and M. Kalacska. “A multidisciplinary approach for studying human-environment interactions in the Indian Ocean World history.” Paper submitted to the Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies (2017).
J.L. Gergis and A.M. Fowler, “A history of ENSO events since A.D. 1525: implications for future climate change,” Climatic Change 92, no. 3 (2009): 343–87.
Klein Goldewijk, K., A. Beusen, M. de Vos, and G. van Drecht, “The HYDE 3.1 spatially explicit database of human induced land use change over the past 12,000 years,” Global Ecology and Biogeography 20, no. 1 (2011): 73–86.
Pourret, O, P. Naïm, and B.G. Marcot. Bayesian Networks. Chichester, UK: John Wiley, 2008.
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Arroyo-Mora, J.P., Kalacska, M. (2019). Relationships between Economic and Environmental Factors, and Labour Migration to Réunion, 1820–1860. In: Campbell, G., Stanziani, A. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Bondage and Human Rights in Africa and Asia. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95957-0_5
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