Displacement caused by climate change is an area of growing concern. With current rises in sea levels and changes to the global climate, it is an issue of fundamental importance to the future of many parts of the world. This book critically examines whether States have obligations to protect people displaced by climate change under international refugee law, international human rights law, and the international law on statelessness. Drawing on field work undertaken in Bangladesh, India, and the Pacific island States of Kiribati and Tuvalu, it evaluates whether the phenomenon of 'climate change-induced displacement' is an empirically sound category for academic inquiry. It does so by examining the reasons why people move (or choose not to move); the extent to which climate change, as opposed to underlying socio-economic factors, provides a trigger for such movement; and whether traditional international responses, such as the conclusion of new treaties and the creation of new institutions, are appropriate solutions in this context. In this way, the book queries whether flight from habitat destruction should be viewed as another facet of traditional international protection or as a new challenge requiring more creative legal and policy responses. law, and the international law on statelessness. Drawing on

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About the Author
Jane McAdam is a Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of New South Wales, Australia and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow. She is the Director of the International Refugee and Migration Law project at the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law. She is also a non-resident Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution, Washington DC and a Research Associate at the University of Oxford's Refugee Studies Centre. Professor McAdam is the Associate Rapporteur of the Convention Refugee Status and Subsidiary Protection Working Party for the International Association of Refugee Law Judges; an adviser to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on the legal aspects of climate-related displacement; and has been a consultant to the Australian and British governments on migration and displacement issues, about which she has written extensively.

Reviews
The issues McAdam addresses are undoubtedly complex and cover a multitude of disciplinary areas. Whilst the overarching approach of this text is a consideration of the international legal aspects of climate change and forced migration it is eminently engaging and the relevance of the issues raised are undoubtedly of importance far beyond the individuals and communities most directly impacted. This remains an emerging field of study and the book serves as a very well-thought-through and informative introduction to issues that will only increase in significance in the very near future. * Roy Smith, Journal of New Zealand and Pacific Studies *
Jane McAdam's book can be considered one of the most complete and recent studies on a topic which has gradually become a subject of major interest in the political and academic arenas. The book offers a comprehensive and clear analysis of all the legal aspects linked to "environmental migration" and makes the reader fully aware of the complexity of the phenomenon....Jane McAdam's book represents a timely and valuable contribution to turn again the spotlight on this phenomenon and to develop suitable legal instruments to guarantee protection to "environmental migrants". * Rossana Palladino, International Community Law Review *
As the looming impacts of climate change on population and their livelihoods continue to exert prssure, Jane McAdam's landmark book, Climate Change, Forced Migration and International Law, makes two fundimental advances: first, the need to closely follow the latest developments of real-world scenarios and accept the existence of mryiad of forms and causes of climate-related movement; and second, seeing the existence of a varied typology of climate-related movement as an opportunity, rather than a challenge, to avoid simplistic top-down solutions and propose complex responces grounded in a human rights and needs-based approach. * Alejandra Torres Camprubi, Review of European Community & International Environmental Law *
Climate change, Forced Migration, and International Law provides a clear and lucid overview of the relationships between the three. Over the 270 pages of content, Jane McAdam gives us a thoughtful and coherent analysis on this difficult topic...the book also exhibits a rigorous approach to research. * HA Lisi, Chinese Journal of International Law *
A well-argued, timely and important text on an issue at the start of its legal development. * Vanessa Bettinson (Senior Lecturer in Law, Leicester De Montfort Law School), Environmental Law & Management *
This book is a welcome addition to the legal literature on the future of our planet. * Mark Wojcik, International Law Prof Blog *
Best described as compendious: a detailed, nuanced and extraordinarily well-referenced treatment of the climate change-migration nexus ... McAdam effectively combines a firm grasp of the social scientific literature with an encyclopaedic knowledge of the legal context. The result is perhaps the best volume on climate change and migration yet published. * Calum T. M. Nicholson, Swansea University, Journal of Refugee Studies *
This is an extraordinarily thorough piece of work, both in terms of the material it summarizes or refers to ... and in its original contributions to one of the hottest contemporary debates in the forced migration field. * Jean-Francois Durieux, International Journal of Refugee Law, vol 25, no 1 *



Book Information
ISBN 9780199587087
Author Jane McAdam
Format Hardback
Page Count 340
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 636g
Dimensions(mm) 242mm * 162mm * 27mm