This book investigates the epistemological and ethical challenges faced by studies exploring the relations between climate change and human migration. At the heart of the contemporary preoccupation with climate change is a concern for its societal impacts. Among these, its presumed effect on human migration is perhaps the most politically resonant, regardless of whether that politics is oriented towards human or national security.
There is, however, a problem: research on the causal link between climate change and migration has shown it to be a highly equivocal one. By extension, it remains unclear what - if any - response is required from law and policy.
Carefully structured to guide the reader through the issue of 'climate migration' in a logical and rigorous manner, this book is the first to bring together key critiques, caveats, and cautions in order to systematically examine the challenges facing law, policy, and research on the topic.
At a time in which both the effects of climate change and the causes of migration are of great public and political interest, and in which these interests are often fraught with sentiment and freighted with politics, the book brings dispassionately critical perspectives to bear on a topic that desperately needs it.
Recenzijas
Taken as a whole, the book is a persuasive and timely exposure to the lack of a scientifically demonstrated causal link between climate and migration, despite the work of law and policy experts that suggests otherwise. * Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences *
Papildus informācija
This book explores the complex literature on climate migration and investigates the epistemological and ethical challenges the topic poses for anyone who takes an interest in the relationship between climate change and human migration.
Foreword, Betsy Hartmann (Hampshire College, USA)
Introduction, Calum TM Nicholson (Cambridge University, UK) and Benoit Mayer
(Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Part I: Content
1. Conceptualizing Climate Migration, Calum TM Nicholson (Cambridge
University, UK)
2. Climate Change-Disaster-Migration: Manufacturing a Nexus, Ilan Kelman
(University College London, UK and University of Agder, Norway)
3. 'Climate Migration? Empirical Insights and Conceptual Cautions from
Political Ecology and Migration Studies, Gunvor Jónsson (Office for National
Statistics, UK)
Part II: Context
4. The Others in John Lanchesters The Wall, Gregory White (Smith College,
USA)
5. Obstacles to Action on Climate Migration: A Story of Persistent
Analytical and Political Ambiguity, David Durand-Delacre (UN University
Institute for Environment and Human Security, Germany)
6. The View from the Fortress: European Governance Perspectives on Climate
Change and Migration, Sarah Louise Nash (University for Continuity Education
Krems, Austria)
7. Race, Migration, and Climate Change: A Cautionary Note, Andrew Baldwin
(Durham University, UK)
Part III: Implications for Research, Policy, and Law
8. Identifying as a Climate Migrant: Implications for Law, Policy, and
Research, Carol Farbotko (Griffith University, Australia)
9. International Law, the Climate-Migration Nexus, and Teitiota v New
Zealand, Giovanna Lauria (Court of Padua, Italy)
10. De-Conceptualizing Climate Migration, Benoit Mayer (Chinese University
of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Conclusion, Calum TM Nicholson (Cambridge University, UK) and Benoit Mayer
(Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Calum Nicholson is Tutor and Lecturer at the Institute of Continuing Education, University of Cambridge, UK. Benoit Mayer is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
