Facilitating the Resettlement and Rights of Climate Refugees: An Argument for Developing Existing Principles and Practices

ISBN-13: 9780367892258 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 190 str.

Avidan Kent; Simon Behrman

Opis

Addressing the regulation of climate refugees through a unique collaboration between a refugee lawyer and an environmental lawyer, this book will be of great interest to scholars and professionals in fields including international law, environmental studies, refugee studies and international relations.

Spis treści

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Acronyms

Introduction

Chapter 1: Defining the ‘legal hole’

Chapter 2: Why ‘Climate Refugees’?

Chapter 3: Climate-Induced Migration and International Environmental Law

Chapter 4: Filling the Institutional Gap

Conclusion: Cautious Optimism?

O autorze

Avidan Kent is a lecturer at the University of East Anglia, UK, and a Fellow of the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law.

Simon Behrman is a lecturer in the Law School at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.