Laura Westra

Environmental Justice and the Rights of Ecological Refugees

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First Published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 245mm x 175mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9781844077977
• ISBN-10: 1844077977
• Artikelnr.: 26855256

Autorenporträt

Laura Westra is Professor Emerita (Philosophy) at University of Windsor, PhD in Law at Osgoode Hall Law School and Adjunct Professor of Social Science at York University, Canada. She is the author of 20 books, including Environmental Justice and the Rights of Unborn and Future Generations (Earthscan, 2006) and Environmental Justice and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (Earthscan, 2007), and has contributed articles and chapters to over 80 journals and books.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue
Part I: Present Refugee Law: Political and Legal Issues and Problems
1: The Question of Environmental Refugees
2: International Assistance and the Refugee Convention's Five Grounds of
Persecution
3: State Protection and State Responsibility to Ecological Refugees
Part II: Ecological Refugees and Refugee Law: The Interface
4: The Five Grounds Revisited: Who are the Vulnerable?
5: Ecological Refugees: Protection and Rights in International Law
Part III: The Way Forward: Existing Legal Instruments and New Provisions
6: International Law Beyond the Convention on the Status of Refugees
7: Towards a Comprehensive Approach to Protecting Refugees and the
Internally Displaced