Displacement caused by climate change is an area of growing
concern. With current rises in sea levels and changes to the global
climate, it is an issue of fundamental importance to the future of
many parts of the world. This book critically examines whether
States have obligations to protect people displaced by climate
change under international refugee law, international human rights
law, and the international law on statelessness. Drawing on field
work undertaken in Bangladesh, India, and the Pacific island States
of Kiribati and Tuvalu, it evaluates whether the phenomenon of
'climate change-induced displacement' is an empirically sound
category for academic inquiry. It does so by examining the reasons
why people move (or choose not to move); the extent to which
climate change, as opposed to underlying socio-economic factors,
provides a trigger for such movement; and whether traditional
international responses, such as the conclusion of new treaties and
the creation of new institutions, are appropriate solutions in this
context. In this way, the book queries whether flight from habitat
destruction should be viewed as another facet of traditional
international protection or as a new challenge requiring more
creative legal and policy responses. law, and the international law
on statelessness. Drawing on
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