Environmental Change, Forced Displacement and International Law - 9780367534158

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Environmental Change, Forced Displacement and International Lawfrom legal protection gaps to protection solutions\nAuthor(s): Isabel M. Borges\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367534158, 978-0367534158\nSynopsis\nThis book explores the increasing concern over the extent to which those suffering from forced cross-border displacement as a result of environmental change are protected under international human rights law. Formally they are not entitled to admission or stay in a third state country, a situation that has been identified as an international \""legal protection gap\"".\n\nThe book seeks to provide answers to two basic questions: whether and to what extent existing international law protects cross-border environmental displacement, and whether and how existing formalized regional complementary protection standards can interpretively solidify and conceptualize protection for cross-border environmental displ.