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List of contents
Foreword
PART I Introduction
1. Climate Change, Migration and Human Rights
PART II Climate Change, Migration and Human Rights: The Theoretical Nexus
2. Governance and Climate Change-induced Mobility: International and Regional Frameworks
3. Critical Perspective on the Identification of ‘Environmental Refugees’ as a Category of Human Rights Concern
PART III Climate Change, Migration and Human Rights: Legal and Policy Approaches
4. Climate Justice, Migration and Human Rights
5. Transitional Law in the Climate Change Context
6. State Responsibility to Prevent Climate Displacement: The Importance of Housing, Land and Property Rights
7. In-Situ Adaptation: Non-Migration as a Coping Strategy for Vulnerable Persons
PART IV Case Studies
8. On Climate Migration and Conflicts – A Self-fulfilling Prophecy?
9. The Human Rights of Climate-Induced Community Relocation
10. Land Matters: Challenges to Planned Relocation as a Durable Solution to Environmentally Induced Displacement in Kenya
11. Politicising Climate Change Adaptation: Negotiating Environmental Migration in the European Union and the Pacific
12. Climate and Community: The Human Rights, Livelihood, and Migration Impacts of Climate Change
13. Labour Mobility Options as Adaptation Strategies to Environmental Changes?
PART V Conclusions
14. Conclusions
About the author
Andrew Baldwin is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography, Durham University, UK.
Dug Cubie is a Lecturer in the School of Law, University College Cork, Ireland.
Dimitra Manou is a Senior Researcher in the School of Law, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
Anja Mihr is the Programme Director of HUMBOLDT – VIADRINA Center on Governance through Human Rights, Berlin, Germany.
Teresa Thorp is CEO & Principal, Insight International (International Trade & Environmental Lawyers & Economists).
Summary
This book offers a fresh perspective on human rights law and policy issues in the climate change regime by examining the interrelationships between various aspects of human rights, climate change and migration. It will be of great interest to scholars of environmental law and policy, climate change, and migration and refugee studies.
