Climate Change and Displacement

Multidisciplinary Perspectives

Jane McAdam, Jane McAdam

• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Year: 2010
• ISBN:
  9781847316004
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Derecho
• Subtopic: Derecho medioambiental

Environmental migration is not new. Nevertheless, the events and processes accompanying global climate change threaten to increase human movement both within states and across international borders. The Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change has predicted an increased frequency and severity of climate events such as storms, cyclones and hurricanes, as well as longer-term sea level rise and desertification, which will impact upon people's ability to survive in certain parts of the world. This book brings together a variety of disciplinary perspectives on the phenomenon of climate-induced displacement. With chapters by leading scholars in their field, it collects in one place a rigorous, holistic analysis of the phenomenon, which can better inform academic understanding and policy development alike. Governments have not been prepared to take a leading role in developing responses to the issue, in large part due to the absence of strong theoretical frameworks from which sound policy can be constructed. The specialist expertise of the authors in this book means that each chapter identifies key issues that need to be considered in shaping domestic, regional and international responses, including the complex causes of movement, the conceptualisation of migration responses to climate change, the terminology that should be used to describe those who move, and attitudes to migration that may affect decisions to stay or leave. The book will help to facilitate the creation of principled, research-based responses, and establish climate-induced displacement as an important aspect of both the climate change and global migration debates.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Prelims
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• Biographies
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Climate Change-Induced Mobility and the Existing Migration Regime in Asia and the Pacific
• 3 Migration as Adaptation: Opportunities and Limits
• 4 Climate-Induced Community Relocation in the Pacific: The Meaning and Importance of Land
• 5 Conceptualising Climate-Induced Displacement
• 6 ‘Disappearing States’, Statelessness and the Boundaries of International Law
• 7 Protecting People Displaced by Climate Change: Some Conceptual Challenges
• 8 International Ethical Responsibilities to ‘Climate Change Refugees’
• 9 Climate Migration and Climate Migrants: What Threat, Whose Security?
• 10 Climate-Related Displacement: Health Risks and Responses
• 11 Climate Change, Human Movement and the Promotion of Mental Health: What Have We Learnt from Earlier Global Stressors?
• 12 Afterword: What Now? Climate-Induced Displacement after Copenhagen
• Index