'Climate refugees' : beyond the legal impasse? / Climate refugees : beyond the legal impasse? edited by Simon Behrman and Avidan Kent. - xv, 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - Routledge studies in environmental migration, displacement and resettlement . - Routledge studies in environmental migration, displacement and resettlement. .

Part I. Foundations -- Overcoming the legal impasse? : setting the scene / 'Climate refugees' : a legal mapping exercise / A new category of refugees? : 'climate refugees' and a gaping hole in international law / Norm formalization in international policy cooperation : a framework for analysis / Part II. Defining and categorization -- Justice and climate migration : the importance of nomenclature in the discourse on twenty-first-century mobility / Who are 'climate refugees'? Academic engagement in the post-truth era / Part III. Governing climate refugees : the perspective of inter-governmental organisations -- Advancing the global governance of climate migration through the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Global Compact on Migration : perspectives from the International Organization for Migration / Enhancing legal protection for people displaced in the context of disasters and climate change : challenges and opportunities / State-led, regional, consultative processes : opportunities to develop legal frameworks on disaster displacement / Part IV. Regulating climate refugees within existing legal regimes -- Drawing upon international refugee law : the precautionary approach to protecting climate change-displaced persons / Public international law's applicability to migration as adaptation : fit for purpose? / Climate migrants' right to enjoy their culture / Beyond the shortcomings of international law : a proposal for the legal protection of climate migrants / Part V. Envisioning sui generis pathways -- Towards an international legal status of environmentally displaced persons / Cross-border displacement due to environmental disaster : a proposal for UN Guiding Principles to fill the legal protection gap / Global governance to protect future climate refugees / Simon Behrman & Avidan Kent -- Jolanda van der Vliet -- Sumudu Anopama Atapattu -- Elin Jakobsson -- Maxine Burkett -- Benoit Mayer -- Mariam Traore Chazalnoel and Dina Ionesco -- Madeline Garlick, Marine Franck & Erica Bower -- Platform on Disaster Displacement (PDD) -- Jenny Poon -- Thekli Anastasiou -- Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh -- Beatriz Felipe Perez -- Michel Prieur -- Camilla Schloss -- Frank Biermann.

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Environmental refugees--Legal status, laws, etc.
Environmental refugees--Government policy.
Emigration and immigration--Environmental aspects.
Human beings--Effect of climate on.
Forced migration.
Climatic changes--Social aspects.
Global environmental change--Social aspects.

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