Scott Leckie, Ezekiel Simperingham, Jordan Bakker

Climate Change and Displacement Reader

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Produktbeschreibung

This compilation brings together fifty-two of the leading texts on climate change and displacement. It provides a consolidated source and substantive overview of the key issues relating to climate change and displacement, including: the reality of climate displacement; the shape of current and proposed international law on this matter; the institutional and governance framework that will address and respond to this crisis; and an analysis of what a cross-section of governments and civil society organizations are already doing to prepare for and act against climate displacement.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 528
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 735g
• ISBN-13: 9780415691345
• ISBN-10: 0415691346
• Artikelnr.: 33608147

Autorenporträt

Scott Leckie is Director of Displacement Solutions - a non-profit initiative designed to assist refugees and displaced persons to return and recover their original homes. An international human rights lawyer and global housing advocate, he is recognised internationally as an expert in the field of economic and social rights. He is currently a Visiting Professor at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. Ezekiel Simperingham is an international human rights lawyer. Ezekiel is currently based in Bangkok, Thailand as a legal consultant for the international humans rights NGO Displacement Solutions, where he is focusing on the international human rights dimensions of the housing, land and property sector in Burma and the housing and property rights of refugees under international law. Jordan Bakker is currently a student at Monash University Law School, and works as a research associate with Displacement Solutions. He has carried out fieldwork on climate displacement in Bangladesh, Kiribati and Tuvalu.

Inhaltsangabe

Section 1: IntroductionSection 2: The Reality of Climate Displacement In
Search of Shelter: Mapping the Effects of Climate Change on Human Migration
and Displacement. Disaster Risk Reduction, Climate Change Adaptation and
Human Security: A Commissioned Report for the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign
Affairs. Climate Changed: People Displaced. The Role of Environmental
Degradation in Population Displacement. Climate Change and Forced
Migration: Observations, Projections and Implications. A Climate of
Conflict: The Links between Climate Change, Peace and War. Losing Paradise.
Section 3: International Legal and Institutional Framework Displacement
Caused by the Effects of Climate Change: Who Will Be Affected and What Are
the Gaps in the Normative Framework for Their Protection?Climate Change,
Natural Disasters and Human Displacement: A UNHCR Perspective. Climate
Change and Statelessness: An Overview. Securing Meaningful International
Agreement on Climate Change Related Displacement and Migration: The Refugee
Convention as a Window on International Burden (Responsibility) - Sharing
in an Involuntary Movement Context. The Protection of
Environmentally-Displaced Persons in International Law. Security Council
Holds First-ever Debate on Impact of Climate Change on Peace, Security,
Hearing Over 50 Speakers. United Nations General Assembly Resolution
63/281: Climate Change and its Possible Security Implications Section 3.1:
Human Rights Law Human Rights Council Resolution 7/23: Human Rights and
Climate Change. The Relationship between Climate Change and Human Rights.
The Human Rights Situation of Indigenous Peoples in States and other
Territories Threatened with Extinction for Environmental Reasons. Mission
to Maldives: Report of the Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing .
Climate Change and Human Rights: A Rough Guide. The Human Side of Climate
Change: Human Rights Violations and Climate Refugees Section 3.2: Selected
Climate Change Standards Male Declaration on the Human Dimension of Global
Climate Change. Copenhagen Accord. The Niue Declaration on Climate Change
Section 4: Proposed New Legal Standards Legal and Normative Frameworks.
'The Hour When The Ship Comes In': A Convention for Persons Displaced by
Climate Change Section 5: Affected Countries Pacific: The Pacific Islands
Framework for Action on Climate Change 2006-2015. The Future is Here:
Climate Change in the Pacific. Australia: People, Property and Places:
Impacts of Climate Change on Human Settlements in the Western Port Region:
People, Property and Places. Engaging our Pacific Neighbours on Climate
Change: Australia's. Our Drowning Neighbours: Labor's Policy Discussion
Paper on Climate Change in the Pacific. Welcoming Pacific Migrants 'In our
Security Interests'. Kiribati: Republic of Kiribati National Adaptation
Program of Action (NAPA). We Aren't Refugees. New Zealand: Adapting to Sea
Level Rise. Papua New Guinea: How-to Guide for Environmental Refugees.
Tuvala: Tuvalu's National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA) United
Nations Framework. Tuvalu: Islanders Lose Ground to Rising Seas. Island
Evacuation. Vanuatu: Global Warning: Devastation of an Atoll. Asia
Bangladesh: Bangladesh National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA). The
Ganges Delta: Temporary Migration as a Survival Strategy. India: Climate
Change in India - A Humanitarian Perspective. Indonesia: Adaptation and
Cooperation. Maldives: Maldives National Adaptation Program of Action.
Vietnam: Mekong Delta: Living with Floods and Resettlement Section 6:
Community and NGO Responses and Proposed Solutions Climate Change Displaced
Persons and Housing, Land and Property Rights: Preliminary Strategies for
Rights-Based Planning and Programming to Resolve Climate-Induced
Displacement. The Bougainville Resettlement Initiative: Meeting Report.
Carterets Integrated Relocation Program Bougainville. Key Points on Climate
Justice. Alaskan Communities' Rights and Resilience