Repairing Domestic Climate Displacement: The Peninsula Principles (Routledge Studies in Development, Displacement and Resettlement) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 113892038X ISBN 13: 9781138920385

Publisher: Routledge, 2015

Synopsis

Climate change, sometimes thought of as a problem for the future, is already impacting people’s lives around the world: families are losing their homes, lands and livelihoods as a result of sea level rise, increased frequency and intensity of storms, drought and other phenomena. Following several years of preparatory work across the globe, legal scholars, judges, UN officials and climate change experts from 11 countries came together to finalise a new normative framework aiming to strengthen the right of climate-displaced persons, households and communities. This resulted in the approval of the Peninsula Principles on Climate Displacement within States in August 2013.

This book provides detailed explanations and interpretations of the Peninsula Principles and includes in-depth discussion of the legal, policy and programmatic efforts needed to uphold the standards and norms embedded in the Principles. The book provides policy-makers with the conceptual understanding necessary to ensure that national-level policies are in place to respond to the climate displacement challenge, as well as a firm sense of the programme-level approaches that can be taken to anticipate, reduce and manage climate displacement. It also provides students and policy advocates with the necessary information to debate and critique responses to climate displacement at different levels.

Drawing together key thinkers in the field, this volume will be of great relevance to scholars, lawyers, legal advisors and policy-makers with an interest in climate change, environmental policy, disaster management and human rights law and policy.

About this title

About the Author

Scott Leckie is the Founder and Director of Displacement Solutions; Visiting Professor at Australian National University, Canberra and Senior Fellow at Melbourne University Law School, Melbourne, Australia.

Chris Huggins is Assistant Professor at the School of International Development and Global Studies, University of Ottawa, Canada.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 113892038X
• ISBN 13: 9781138920385
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 198
• Editor: Leckie Scott, Huggins Chris