Climate change and people on the move : international law and justice / Fanny Thornton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thornton, Fanny, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emigration and immigration law.

Environmental refugees--Legal status, laws, etc.

Environmental refugees.

Climatic changes--Social aspects.

Climatic changes.

Physical Description:

xiii, 238 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Summary:

This book applies a justice framework to analysis of the actual and potential role of international law with respect to people on the move in the context of anthropogenic climate change. That people are affected by the impacts of climate change is no longer doubted, including with implications for people movement (migration, displacement, relocation, etc.). Climate Change and People on the Move tackles unique questions concerning international responsibility for people movement arising from the inequities inherent to climate change.0Corrective and distributive justice provide the analytical backbone, and are explored in a substantial theoretical chapter and then applied to subsequent contextual analysis. Corrective justice supports analysis as to whether people movement in the climate change context could be conceived or framed as harm, loss, or damage which is compensable under international law, either through fault-centred regimes or no-fault regimes (i.e. insurance). Distributive justice supports analysis as to whether such movement could be conceived or framed as a disproportionate burden, either for those faced with movement or those faced with sheltering people on the move, from which duties of re-distribution may stem. This book contributes to the growing scholarship and analysis concerning international law or governance and people movement in response to the impacts of climate change by investigating the bounds of the law where the phenomenon is viewed as one of (in)justice.

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. People Movement in the Climate Change Context: Utility and Complexity

3. People Movement in the Climate Change Context and International Law: Disciplinary Boundaries

4. Why Justice? What Justice?

5. Corrective Justice: 'Pure'

6. Corrective Justice: 'Rough'

7. Distributive Justice: Costs

8. Distributive Justice: Shelter

9. Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0198824815

9780198824817

OCLC:

1029807001