Climate Change and Displacement Reader

by Scott Leckie, Ezekiel Simperingham, Jordan Bakker

Overview

Official estimates put the future scale of human displacement as a result of climate change at anywhere from 150 million to one billion people. Despite this crisis in the making, few countries or international institutions are adequately prepared to address and resolve this emerging human rights crisis.

This compilation brings together fifty-one 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. This volume is an indispensable resource for academics researching this issue, community and international advocates, officials of the United Nations and international human rights and humanitarian organizations; national and municipal governments as well as all people concerned about the human rights of climate displaced persons throughout the world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415691345
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/30/2011
Pages:	528
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Section 1: Introduction Section 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