Matthew ScottClimate Change, Disasters, and the Refugee Convention
Matthew Scott heads the People on the Move thematic area at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in Sweden, where he leads research and educational initiatives relating to human rights, disasters and displacement in Asia and the Pacific, Africa and Europe. He is a solicitor of England and Wales and practised asylum and immigration law before entering academia.
1. Introduction
2. Two disaster paradigms
3. Jurisprudence on RSD in the context of 'natural' disasters and climate change
4. Interpreting the refugee definition
5. The temporal scope of being persecuted
6. The personal scope of being persecuted: the function of the non-discrimination norm within the refugee definition
7. Refugee status determination in the context of 'natural' disasters and climate change
Appendix 1. Taxonomy.
