1st Edition
Nordic Approaches to Climate-Related Human Mobility
Academic discussion of climate‑related human mobility has understandably focused on the places where people are especially vulnerable to climate‑related harm: the Global South. Yet, the unique biophysical, legal and socio‑political characteristics of the Nordic region, as well as its roles as both ‘home’ and ‘host’ to climate‑related mobilities, justify its independent attention. Filling this lacuna, this collection is the first to address climate‑related human mobility in the Nordic region. It is a timely and much needed collection, which brings together leading and emerging voices from both academia and practice in a single volume, spanning policy and geographical breadth. Its chapters cover both regional approaches to the global phenomenon of climate mobility, such as the traditional role of the Nordic states as norm entrepreneurs and their representation in multilateral fora, and on‑the‑ground climate impacts unique to this region and their localised responses. Case studies include judicial decision‑making as it relates to climate‑related migration, insights into the local communication of climate risk, changes to Nordic development and climate policy, as well as climate‑related mobilities of Nordic Indigenous Peoples.
This volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of disaster and climate studies, as well as climate‑related mobility, migration and displacement.
Contents
1. Introduction: Nordic Approaches to Climate-Related Human Mobility
Miriam Cullen and Matthew Scott
2. Trends and Policy Perspectives of Nordic Countries towards People on the Move in a Changing Climate
Christina Daszkiewicz, Robin Neumann and Barbara Rijks
3. Shifting status: Nordic countries and norm entrepreneurship after the overturning of disaster-related mobility provisions
Anne Massari-Vaudé
4. Climate-Related Mobility into the Nordic Region: Law, Policy and (Limited) Practice Matthew Scott and Charlotta Lahnalahti
5. The developmentalisation of climate mobilities policy in Denmark and Sweden
Sarah Louise Nash
6. Losing home without going anywhere: Reconceptualising climate‑related displacement in international law and policy in ways relevant to Inuit in Greenland
Miriam Cullen and Nivikka L. Witjes
7. Displaced from the Cold: Threats to the self-determination, including the cultural self-determination, of Sámi Indigenous Peoples in the Nordic region from climate change impacts
Dave-Inder Comar
8. Futureless futures: Reflections on life in doomed places in Nordic countries
Mo Hamza, Reidar Satupe-Delgado and Kerstin Eriksson
9. Mobility paradox: "Green" energy production and Sámi perceptions of national decisions-making legitimacy
Suanne M. Segovia-Tzompa
Index
Biography
Miriam Cullen is Associate Professor of Public Law and Sustainability at Copenhagen University, and Programme Manager, Research, at the Danish Institute for Human Rights. She researches social sustainability, climate‑related mobilities, critical perspectives on international law, in particular decolonial approaches to law and rights, with particular focus on Greenland.
Matthew Scott is leader of the Human Rights and the Environment thematic area at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute and Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law at Lund University. His work focuses on law, policy and practice relating to human mobility, disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation.
