Environmental justice and the rights of ecological refugees
By: Laura Westra.
Publisher: Earthscan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London; Sterling, VA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781844077977
Subjects: Environmental refugees -- Legal status, laws, etc; Refugees -- Legal status, laws, etc; Environmental justice; Human rights
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The question of environmental refugees; title: International assistance and the refugee convention's five grounds of persecution; title: State protection and state responsibility to ecological refugees; title: The five grounds revisited : who are the vulnerable?; title: Ecological refugees : protection and rights in international law; title: International law beyond the convention on the status of refugees; title: Towards a comprehensive approach to protecting refugees and the internally displaced.