Global climate change and environmental refugees : nature, framework and legality / Pardeep Singh, Bendangwapang Ao, and Anamika Yadav.

Aftermath of Calamities on Migration -- Historical Evolution of Climate Refugee Concepts -- Major Impact of Global Climate Change in Atmospheric, Hydrospheric and Lithospheric Context -- Drivers of Climate Migration -- Climate Change, Gender and Traditional Livelihoods: Some Reflections from India -- Forced Migration of Farmers in Eco-City: The Investigation of Environmental Justice in New Chandigarh -- Climate Change Induced Migration with Special Emphasis on the Coastal Zones in India -- Climate Change and Farmers-Pastoralists Conflict in Nigeria: A Development-Centered Analysis -- Analysing Climate Migration Dynamics in the Caribbean Through the Iota Hurricane: Shock Doctrine, Capitalism of Disasters and Development -- Climate Refugees: Arriving at a Possible Framework -- Parameters for the Study of Climate Refugees -- Exploring Legal Avenues for the Protection of Environmental Migrants Through a Rights Lens -- Internally Displaced Persons and the Right-Based Approach: An Inquiry into the Legal Platforms of the African Union -- Climate-Induced Migration in the WIO Countries and Its Regional Implication

This book explores the possibilities of understanding the concept of climate refugees in order to ascribe to a consensual agreement that climate refugees are evident and this situation is a reality. A framework to study both empirically and theoretically is presented in a detailed manner so that it may become a resource for understanding the challenges of climate refugees. Through discussion and analysis the book presents potential answers to such questions as: ● Why has the international system been so short-sighted and has not given importance to the problems of climate migrants and refugees? ● How to identify a climate refugee? ● How do you justify a climate refugee or a migrant? ● What are internally displaced people? Should we call them just refugees? The book covers the interdisciplinary nature of climate refugees and the perspectives of social science. The empirical findings provides an edge to holistically understanding climate refugees. This book discusses the concept of, what really is a climate refugee, and the necessary factors to make it an important part of the climate discourse. The legality of the term is missing in international parlance, and the academic discourse should provide the necessary critique required for the evolution of the subject under study. Therefore, the major objective of the book is to make the subject of climate migration known to all.

Description based on print version record.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.