1st Edition
Facilitating the Resettlement and Rights of Climate Refugees An Argument for Developing Existing Principles and Practices
190 Pages
by
Routledge
190 Pages
by
Routledge
190 Pages
by
Routledge
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One of the most significant impacts of climate change is migration. Yet, to date, climate-induced migrants are falling within what has been defined by some as a ‘protection gap’. This book addresses this issue, first by identifying precisely where the gap exists, by reviewing the relevant legal tools that are available for those who are currently, and who will in the future be displaced because... Read more
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Acronyms
Introduction
Chapter 1: Defining the ‘legal hole’
Chapter 2: Why ‘Climate Refugees’?
Chapter 3: Climate-Induced Migration and International Environmental Law
Chapter 4: Filling the Institutional Gap
Conclusion: Cautious Optimism?
Biography
Avidan Kent is a lecturer at the University of East Anglia, UK, and a Fellow of the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law.
Simon Behrman is a lecturer in the Law School at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.
