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" Environmental justice and the rights of ecological refugees / "
Laura Westra.
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BL
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987381
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b741751
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Westra, Laura.
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Environmental justice and the rights of ecological refugees /\ Laura Westra.
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London ;Sterling, VA :: Earthscan,, 2009.
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1 online resource (xviii, 302 pages)
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113657445X
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: 1136574492
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: 1136574506
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: 1844077977
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: 1849770085
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: 9781136574450
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: 9781136574498
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: 9781136574504
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: 9781844077977
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: 9781849770088
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9780415703666
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-292) and index.
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| Contents
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The question of environmental refugees -- International assistance and the refugee convention's five grounds of persecution -- State protection and state responsibility to ecological refugees -- The five grounds revisited : who are the vulnerable? -- Ecological refugees : protection and rights in international law -- International law beyond the convention on the status of refugees -- Towards a comprehensive approach to protecting refugees and the internally displaced.
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Climate change and other environmental problems are increasingly leading to the displacement of populations from their homelands, whether through drought, flooding, famine or other causes. Worse, there is currently no protection in international law for people made refugees by such means. Following on from her previous explorations of environmental justice as it relates to future generations and indigenous peoples, Laura Westra now turns her attention to the plight of ecological refugees. In Part I, Westra provides an overview of what defines an ecological refugee and their present legal status.
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Environmental justice.
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Environmental refugees-- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Human rights.
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Refugees-- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Environmental justice.
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Human rights.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Political Freedom Security-- Human Rights.
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Refugees-- Legal status, laws, etc.
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341.4/86
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K3230.R45W47 2009eb
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