Escaping climate change: Who are the "environmental migrants" in international law? / Elena Piasentin.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Piasentin, Elena, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human Rights and Refugees.

Local Subjects:

Human Rights and Refugees.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (8 pages)

Contained In:

Freedom from Fear Vol. 2016, no. 12, p. 32-39 2016:12<32 2519-0709

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : United Nations, 2016.

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Summary:

The term "environmental refugees" was used for the first time in 1985, when the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) researcher Essam El-Hinnawi defined these persons as those "who have been forced to leave their traditional habitat, temporarily or permanently, because of a marked environmental disruption (natural and/or triggered by people) that jeopardized their existence and/or seriously affected the quality of their life."

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