Climate Change, Forced Migration, and International Law
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Displacement
caused by climate change is an area of growing concern. With current
rises in sea levels and changes to the global climate, it is an issue of
fundamental importance to the future of many parts of the world. This
book critically examines whether States have obligations to protect
people displaced by climate change under international refugee law,
international human rights law, and the international law on
statelessness. Drawing on field work undertaken in Bangladesh, India,
and the Pacific island States of Kiribati and Tuvalu, it evaluates
whether the phenomenon of 'climate change-induced displacement' is an
empirically sound category for academic inquiry. It does so by examining
the reasons why people move (or choose not to move); the extent to
which climate change, as opposed to underlying socio-economic factors,
provides a trigger for such movement; and whether traditional
international responses, such as the conclusion of new treaties and the
creation of new institutions, are appropriate solutions in this context.
In this way, the book queries whether flight from habitat destruction
should be viewed as another facet of traditional international
protection or as a new challenge requiring more creative legal and
policy responses. law, and the international law on statelessness.
Drawing on
