Climate Change and Refugees: A Challenge to Legal Frameworks

Simon Behrman, Avidan Kent

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Abstract

The impacts of climate change are now widely recognised as a driver of forced migration. Much debate persists, however, as to whether existing legal frameworks can provide effective protection to those affected, especially those who are forced to cross borders to escape the danger. These arguments are closely linked to ones surrounding the terminology used to describe the phenomenon. This chapter contextualises these debates within a selection of key recent legal and policy developments, and attempts to unpick some of these questions and suggest ways forward, based on critical engagement with certain underlying premises of refugee, human rights, and environmental law.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationResearch Handbook on Asylum and Refugee Policy
EditorsJane Freedman, Glenda Santana de Andrade
PublisherEdward Elgar
Chapter21
Pages320-336
Number of pages17
ISBN (Electronic)978 1 80220 459 9
ISBN (Print)978 1 80220 458 2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 24 Sep 2024

Publication series

NameElgar Handbooks in Migration

Keywords

  • Climate change
  • Human rights
  • Law
  • Nomenclature
  • Refugees

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