1st Edition
Climate Refugees Beyond the Legal Impasse?
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
List of Abbreviations
PART I: FOUNDATIONS
Chapter 1: Overcoming the Legal Impasse? Setting the scene
Simon Behrman & Avidan Kent
Chapter 2: ‘Climate Refugees’ a Legal Mapping Exercise
Jolanda van der Vliet
Chapter 3: A New Category of Refugees? "Climate Refugees" and a Gaping Hole in International Law Sumudu Atapattu
Chapter 4: Norm Formalization in International Policy Cooperation - A Framework for Analysis Elin Jakobsson
PART II: DEFINING AND CATEGORISING
Chapter 5: Justice and Climate Migration: The Importance of Nomenclature in the Discourse on 21st Century Mobility
Maxine Burkett
Chapter 6: Who Are "Climate Refugees"? Academic Engagement in the Post-Truth Era
Benoit Mayer
PART III: GOVERNING CLIMATE REFUGEES: THE PERSPECTIVE OF INTER-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS
Chapter 7: Advancing the Global Governance of Climate Migration through the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Global Compact on Migration: Perspectives from the International Organization for Migration
Mariam Traore Chazalnoel and Dina Ionesco
Chapter 8: Enhancing Legal Protection for People Displaced in the Context of Disasters and Climate Change: Challenges and Opportunities
Madeline Garlick, Marine Franck & Erica Bower
Chapter 9: State-Led, Regional, Consultative Processes: Opportunities to Develop Legal Frameworks on Disaster
Displacement Platform on Disaster Displacement
PART IV: REGULATING CLIMATE REFUGEES WITHIN EXISTING LEGAL REGIMES
Chapter 10: Drawing Upon International Refugee Law: The Precautionary Approach to Protecting Climate Change Displaced Persons
Jenny Poon
Chapter 11: Public International Law’s Applicability to Migration as Adaptation: Fit For Purpose? Thekli Anastasiou
Chapter 12: Climate Migrants’ Right to Enjoy their Culture
Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh
Chapter 13: Beyond the Shortcomings of International Law: a Proposal for the Legal Protection of Climate Migrants
Beatriz Felipe Pérez
PART V: ENVISIONING SUI GENERIS PATHWAYS
Chapter 14: Towards an International Legal Status of Environmentally-Displaced Persons Michel Prieur
Chapter 15: Cross-Border Displacement Due to Environmental Disaster: A Proposal for UN Guiding Principles to Fill the Legal Protection Gap
Camilla Schloss
Chapter 16: Global Governance to Protect Future Climate Refugees
Frank Biermann
Biography
Simon Behrman is a lecturer at the Law School at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.
Avidan Kent is a lecturer at the University of East Anglia, UK, and a Fellow of the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (McGill/Cambridge University).
