1st Edition

Nordic Approaches to Climate-Related Human Mobility

Edited By Miriam Cullen, Matthew Scott Copyright 2024
168 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

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.