Research handbook on climate change, migration and the law / edited by Benoît Mayer, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, Chinese University of Hong Kong ; François Crépeau, Hans & Tamar Oppenheimer Professor in Public International Law, Faculty of Law, McGill University, Canada.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mayer, Benoît, editor.

Crépeau, François, editor.

Series:

Research handbooks in climate law.

Research Handbooks in Climate Law

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes--Law and legislation.

Climatic changes.

Forced migration.

Emigration and immigration law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (504 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Climate change, migration and the law

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, England ; Northampton, Massachusetts : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017.

Summary:

Concerns have arisen in recent decades about the impact of climate change on human mobility.Many people affected by climate change are forced or otherwise decide to migrate within or across international borders.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright

Contents

List of contributors

1. Introduction

PART I: PERSPECTIVES ON THE CLIMATE-MIGRATION NEXUS

2. Climate-related migration and its linkages to vulnerability, adaptation, and socio-economic inequality: evidence from recent examples

3. 'Climate-induced migration': ways forward in the face of an intrinsically equivocal concept

4. Representation and misrepresentation of climate migrants

PART II: EXISTING LAWS AND INSTITUTIONS

5. The inadequacy of international refugee law in response to environmental migration

6. The relevance of the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement for the climate change-migration nexus

7. Climate change, human rights and migration: a legal analysis of challenges and opportunities

8. Indigenous peoples, climate migration and international human rights law in Africa, with reflections on the relevance of the Kampala Convention

9. International climate change law perspectives

10. Displacement due to responses to climate change: the role of a rights-based approach

11. Climate change, migration and the law of state responsibility

12. Regional responses to climate change and migration in Latin America

13. Organizational perspectives: International Organization for Migration's role and perspectives on climate change, migration and the law

14. Organizational perspective from the International Labour Organization

15. Engaging the media on climate-linked migration

PART III: WAYS FORWARD?

16. Ethical duties to climate migrants

17. When climate-induced migration meets loss and damage: a weakening agenda-setting process?

18. The refugees of the Anthropocene

19. Towards a global governance system to protect climate migrants: taking stock

20. Towards a climate change displacement facility.

21. Towards an extension of complementary protection?

Afterword

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

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ISBN:

1-78536-659-9

OCLC:

1007134275