Climate Change, Forced Migration, and International Law

Zusatztext This is an extraordinarily thorough piece of work, both in terms of the material it summarizes or refers to ... and in its original contributions to one of the hottest contemporary debates in the forced migration field. Informationen zum Autor Jane McAdam is a Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of New South Wales, Australia and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow. She is the Director of the International Refugee and Migration Law project at the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law. She is also a non-resident Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution, Washington DC and a Research Associate at the University of Oxford's Refugee Studies Centre. Professor McAdam is the Associate Rapporteur of the Convention Refugee Status and Subsidiary Protection Working Party for the International Association of Refugee Law Judges; an adviser to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on the legal aspects of climate-related displacement; and has been a consultant to the Australian and British governments on migration and displacement issues, about which she has written extensively. Klappentext This is a key study into whether 'climate change refugees' are protected by international law. It examines the reasons why people do or do not move; how far climate change is a trigger for movement; and whether traditional international responses, such as creating new treaties and new institutions, are appropriate solutions in this context. Zusammenfassung This is a key study into whether 'climate change refugees' are protected by international law. It examines the reasons why people do or do not move; how far climate change is a trigger for movement; and whether traditional international responses, such as creating new treaties and new institutions, are appropriate solutions in this context.

Product details

• Authors: Jane McAdam, McAdam Jane
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.03.2012
• EAN: 9780199587087
• ISBN: 978-0-19-958708-7
• No. of pages: 322
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Internationales Recht, Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte, SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change, Climate Change, NATURE / Ecology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, LAW / International, LAW / Public, LAW / Environmental, Legal Reference / Law Profession, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Refugees, LAW / Emigration & Immigration, Social impact of environmental issues, International Environmental Law, Public international law: environment, Refugees and political asylum, Refugees & Political Asylum, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law