Climate Change, Forced Migration, and International Law

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.

About the author

Jane McAdam is Scientia Professor of Law and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow in the Faculty of Law at the University of New South Wales, Australia. She is the Director of the International Refugee and Migration Law project at the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law; a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, Washington DC; and a Research Associate at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford.

Summary

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.

Additional text

Climate change, Forced Migration, and International Law provides a clear and lucid overview of the relationships between the three. Over the 270 pages of content, Jane McAdam gives us a thoughtful and coherent analysis on this difficult topic...the book also exhibits a rigorous approach to research.

Product details

• Authors: Jane McAdam, Jane (Professor At the Faculty of Law Mcadam
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.10.2013
• EAN: 9780199682225
• ISBN: 978-0-19-968222-5
• No. of pages: 344
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature and society: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Klimawandel, Soziale Auswirkungen von Umweltfaktoren, Internationales Öffentliches Recht: Menschenrechte, Internationales Öffentliches Recht: Umwelt