Global Climate Change and Environmental Refugees

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vi

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2. Aftermath of Calamities on Migration

   • Deepmala Ghosh

   Pages 1-17

3. Historical Evolution of Climate Refugee Concepts

   • Anurag Mishra, Shashvat Singh

   Pages 19-33

4. Major Impact of Global Climate Change in Atmospheric, Hydrospheric and Lithospheric Context

   • Monika Yadav, Hardik Giri Gosai, Gurudatta Singh, Abhilaksha Singh, Arvind Kumar Singh, Ravindra Pratap Singh et al.

   Pages 35-55

5. Drivers of Climate Migration

   • Abhay Punia, Ravindra Pratap Singh, Nalini Singh Chauhan

   Pages 57-75

6. Climate Change, Gender and Traditional Livelihoods: Some Reflections from India

   • Pushpa Singh

   Pages 77-90

7. Forced Migration of Farmers in Eco-City: The Investigation of Environmental Justice in New Chandigarh

   • Anupreet Singh Tiwana

   Pages 91-104

8. Climate Change Induced Migration with Special Emphasis on the Coastal Zones in India

   • Sangita Agarwal, Tathagata Deb

   Pages 105-119

9. Climate Change and Farmers-Pastoralists Conflict in Nigeria: A Development-Centered Analysis

   • Unyime-Young Mfon

   Pages 121-136

10. Analysing Climate Migration Dynamics in the Caribbean Through the Iota Hurricane: Shock Doctrine, Capitalism of Disasters and Development

    • Esteban Gutiérrez-Sánchez-Salamanca

    Pages 137-184

11. Climate Refugees: Arriving at a Possible Framework

    • Sumedha Chatterjee

    Pages 185-198

12. Parameters for the Study of Climate Refugees

    • Seda Yıldırım, Seda H. Bostancı, Durmuş Çağrı Yıldırım

    Pages 199-214

13. Exploring Legal Avenues for the Protection of Environmental Migrants Through a Rights Lens

    • Ishan Chauhan, Harshdeep Singh Bedi

    Pages 215-234

14. Internally Displaced Persons and the Right-Based Approach: An Inquiry into the Legal Platforms of the African Union

    • Bendangwapang Ao, Namrata Saha

    Pages 235-249

15. Climate-Induced Migration in the WIO Countries and Its Regional Implication

    • Samir Bhattacharya

    Pages 251-266

This book explores the possibilities of understanding the concept of climate refugees in order to ascribe to a consensual agreement that climate refugees are evident and this situation is a reality.

A framework to study both empirically and theoretically is presented in a detailed manner so that it may become a resource for understanding the challenges of climate refugees.

Through discussion and analysis the book presents potential answers to such questions as:

●        Why has the international system been so short-sighted and has not given importance to the problems of climate migrants and refugees?

●        How to identify a climate refugee?

●        How do you justify a climate refugee or a migrant?

●        What are internally displaced people? Should we call them just refugees?

The book covers the interdisciplinary nature of climate refugees and the perspectives of social science. The empirical findings provides an edge to holistically understanding climate refugees.

This book discusses the concept of, what really is a climate refugee, and the necessary factors to make it an important part of the climate discourse. The legality of the term is missing in international parlance, and the academic discourse should provide the necessary critique required for the evolution of the subject under study. Therefore, the major objective of the book is to make the subject of climate migration known to all.

• Human migration
• Climate Change
• Climate refugee
• Environmental hazards and catastrophes
• Political, social and economic issues
• Geneva Convention for Refugees
• International systems and legal frameworks
• Definition of climate refugee

• Department of Environmental Studies, PGDAV College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India

  Pardeep Singh

• Centre for African Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

  Bendangwapang Ao

• Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi, India

  Anamika Yadav

Pardeep Singh is presently working as Assistant professor (Department of Environmental Studies , PGDAV College, University of Delhi New Delhi India). He obtained his doctorate from Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University) Varanasi. The area of his doctoral research is environmental management. He has published more than 75 research and review papers in the international journals in the fields of waste management. He has also edited  45 books in the field of environment and waste management with reputed publishers like Springer nature , Elsevier , CRC and Wiley.

Bendangwapang Ao is Doctoral fellow  at Centre for African Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He also has an MPhil in International Relations from the JNU. Prior to that he has done his Masters in Forestry Management from Indian Institute of Forest Management, Bhopal. He is currently working on the topic of environmental policies and global climate change . He is also a recipient of the ICSSR full time Doctoral Fellowship.  His area of interest includes environmental policies, climate change negotiation, sustainability, and international relations.

Anamika Yadav works with the Centre for Science and Environment, a policy and advocacy think-tank based out of New Delhi, India. Here, she is working to find sustainable answers to the unsustainable food systems and green circular economy and global climate change .. She is also a Doctoral Fellow at the Centre for Studies in Science Policy, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her doctoral research explores the debates around the green circular economy. She has experience working with social, academic, and research organisations in different capacities.