TY  - BOOK
AU  - Scott, Matthew
TI  - Climate change, disasters, and the refugee convention 
T2  - Cambridge asylum and migration studies
SN  - 9781108747127
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Cambridge : 
PB  - Cambridge University Press, 
KW  - Refugees -- Legal status, laws, etc 	
KW  - Asylum, Right of
KW  - 	Environmental refugees -- Legal status, laws, etc 	
KW  - Disaster victms
KW  -  -- Legal status, laws, etc 	
KW  - Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees
KW  - (1951 July 28)
N1  - Based on author's thesis (doctoral - Lunds universitet Juridiska fakulteten, 2018) issued under title: Refugee status determination in the context of 'natural' disasters and climate change : a human rights-based approach
	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Jan 2020); Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - Climate Change, Disasters and the Refugee Convention is concerned with refugee status determination (RSD) in the context of disasters and climate change. It demonstrates that the legal predicament of people who seek refugee status in this connection has been inconsistently addressed by judicial bodies in leading refugee law jurisdictions, and identifies epistemological as well as doctrinal impediments to a clear and principled application of international refugee law. Arguing that RSD cannot safely be performed without a clear understanding of the relationship between natural hazards and human agency, the book draws insights from disaster anthropology and political ecology that see discrimination as a contributory cause of people's differential exposure and vulnerability to disaster-related harm. This theoretical framework, combined with insights derived from the review of existing doctrinal and judicial approaches, prompts a critical revision of the dominant human rights-based approach to the refugee definition
ER  -