Climate Displacement

NOTE EDITORE

Climate change is reshaping patterns of displacement around the world. Extreme weather events destroy homes, environmental degradation threatens the viability of livelihoods, sea level rise and coastal erosion force communities to relocate, and risks to food and resource security magnify the sources of political instability. Climate displacement—the displacement of people driven at least in part by the impacts of climate change—is a pressing moral challenge that is incumbent upon us to address. This book develops a political theory of climate displacement. Most work on climate displacement has tended to take an idealized ‘climate refugee’ as its focus. But focusing on the figure of the climate refugee obscures the complexity and heterogeneity of climate displacement. Instead, this book takes the empirical dynamics of climate displacement as its starting point. It examines the moral and political problems raised by the interaction of climate change and displacement in five domains: community relocation, territorial sovereignty, labour migration, refugee movement, and internal displacement. In each context, climate displacement raises distinct questions, which this book explores on their own terms. At the same time, this book treats climate displacement as a unified phenomenon by examining the overarching questions of responsibility and fairness that it raises. The result is an empirically grounded political theory that both maps the conceptual terrain of climate displacement and charts a course for meeting the moral challenge that it raises.

SOMMARIO

1 - The Moral Challenge of Climate Displacement2 - Against a Treaty for Climate Refugees3 - Climate Change and Community Relocation4 - Climate Change and Territorial Sovereignty5 - Climate Change and Labour Migration6 - Climate Change and the Refugee Regime7 - Climate Change and Internal Displacement8 - Sharing the Costs of Climate Displacement9 - The Future of Climate Displacement

AUTORE

Jamie Draper is an Assistant Professor in the Ethics Institute at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Utrecht University. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow in Politics at Nuffield College, Oxford. His research focuses on migration, climate change, and urban politics.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780192870162
• Dimensioni: 240 x 20.0 x 160 mm Ø 540 gr
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pagine Arabe: 272