Environmental justice and the rights of ecological refugees / Laura Westra.
2009
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Title
Environmental justice and the rights of ecological refugees / Laura Westra.
Published
London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan, 2009.
Call Number
K3230.R45 W47 2009
ISBN
9781844077977 (hardback)
1844077977 (hardback)
1844077977 (hardback)
Description
xviii, 302 pages ; 25 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)289096011
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [279]-292) and index.
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Purchased from the income of the Beinecke Fund
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The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Purchased from the income of the Beinecke Fund
Table of Contents
Foreword / Ved P. Nanda
Prologue
Pt. I
Present Refugee Law: Political and Legal Issues and Problems
1
The Question of Environmental Refugees
2
International Assistance and the Refugee Convention's Five Grounds of Persecution
3
State Protection and State Responsibility to Ecological Refugees
Pt. II
Ecological Refugees and Refugee Law: The Interface
4
The Five Grounds Revisited: Who Are the Vulnerable?
5
Ecological Refugees: Protection and Rights in International Law
Pt. III
The Way Forward: Existing Legal Instruments and New Provisions
6
International Law beyond the Convention on the Status of Refugees
7
Towards a Comprehensive Approach to Protecting Refugees and the Internally Displaced
Appendix 1
Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees (1951)
Appendix 2
Other Relevant Instruments
Appendix 3
Draft Convention on the International Status of Environmentally-Displaced Persons
List of acronyms and abbreviations
List of cases
List of documents
Bibliography
Index