Exploring The Rights Of Climate Displaced Persons
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Exploring the Rights of Climate Displaced Persons
Author: Scott Leckie
language: en
Publisher: Ethics International Press
Release Date: 2025-06-15
This book addresses how to more effectively use law, human rights and institutional reforms to resolve the many challenges posed by climate displacement. The book addresses issues such as: Why all governments need to establish a national climate displacement ministry to implement relevant laws; how to improve land law and policy to assist climate-displaced persons and communities; how to litigate better on climate displacement issues; which legal avenues have not yet been tried to bolster judicial support for climate displaced persons; which type of legal cases are still yet to be tried concerning the housing, land, and property rights of climate-displaced persons; and where do laws and policy affecting domestic climate displacement need to be revised and improved?
Migration, Environment and Climate Change
Gradual and sudden environmental changes are resulting in substantial human movement and displacement, and the scale of such flows, both internal and cross-border, is expected to rise with unprecedented impacts on lives and livelihoods. Despite the potential challenge, there has been a lack of strategic thinking about this policy area partly due to a lack of data and empirical research on this topic. Adequately planning for and managing environmentallyinduced migration will be critical for human security. The papers in this volume were first presented at the Research Workshop on Migration and the Environment: Developing a Global Research Agenda held in Munich, Germany in April 2008. One of the key objectives on the Munich workshop was to address the need for more sound empirical research and identify priority areas of research for policy makers in the field of migration and the environment.
Climate Change and Displacement
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.