9 results on '"Environmentally displaced people"'
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2. Environmentally Displaced People
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Leal Filho, Walter, Series Editor, Azul, Anabela Marisa, editor, Brandli, Luciana, editor, Özuyar, Pinar Gökcin, editor, and Wall, Tony, editor
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- 2020
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3. Policies and labels for negotiating rights protection for the environmentally displaced in Ghana: the Dagara farmer in perspective.
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Yelfaanibe, Augustine and Zetter, Roger
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ENVIRONMENTAL rights , *POLITICAL refugees , *HUMAN rights - Abstract
This paper discusses the issue of rights within the context of contemporary policies and the extent to which they address the challenges confronting environmentally displaced people in Ghana. It also explores the role of labels in the drive toward affording appropriate rights protection for the environmentally displaced. The discussions are an offshoot from two extant studies conducted through interviews and focus group sessions. The objective of the first study was to assess the level of preparedness of government to offer appropriate rights protection to environmentally displaced persons. The second study investigated how migrants, especially those affected by changing environmental condition are able to gain access and negotiate their rights in all the different places they go to. From the studies, it was found that there are no clear policies in Ghana meant to afford rights protection to environmentally displaced people and that the rights of such migrants keep shifting with both time and location. People migrating from areas of environmental scarcity lack the capacity to negotiate for ‘better’ rights due to weak leadership and the fear of losing courtesies extended to them by the host communities. It concludes that there are ample opportunities within the policy and social environments for supporting and promoting appropriate rights protection for environmentally displaced people. It recommends a shift in the national policy drive toward a rights-based protection with clear blue prints for targeting and addressing the needs of environmentally displaced in Ghana. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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4. AMBIENTE E DESLOCAMENTO HUMANO: UMA ANÁLISE SOBRE OS DESLOCADOS AMBIENTAIS
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Lorenzi, Muriel Tumelero and Veiga, Paula Margarida Cabral Santos
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Deslocados ambientais ,Constitucionalização do ambiente ,Constitutionalization of the Environmental Law ,Direito Internacional dos Direitos Humanos ,Degradação ambiental ,Climate change ,Environmentally displaced people ,Mudança climática ,International Human Rights Law ,Environmental degradation - Abstract
Dissertação de Mestrado em Direito apresentada à Faculdade de Direito O presente trabalho tem como intuito analisar a relação entre o ambiente e migrações humanas. Para isso, inicialmente aborda-se a evolução da matéria ambiental nos movimentos internacionais para a sua proteção, alcançando o reconhecimento de direito humano pelas vias existentes, principalmente, pelos Sistemas Regionais de Direitos Humanos, especificamente, o europeu e o americano. Com esta análise sob a perspectiva de um Direito Internacional Ambiental, parte-se para o estudo do tratamento do ambiente em dois países: Brasil e Portugal. Para isso é realizada uma abordagem das previsões constitucionais para o ambiente e as leis específicas da matéria em ambos os Estados. Dada essa estrutura, são analisados os conceitos e algumas especificidades sobre degradação e dano ambiental, vulnerabilidade do ambiente e humana. Destarte é alcançada a matéria das migrações, perpassando a sua estrutura existente, abrangendo o Direito Internacional dos Refugiados, Direito Internacional dos Direitos Humanos e Direito Internacional Humanitário. A partir dessa construção, disserta-se sobre os deslocados ambientais: no intuito de interagir o conceito existente no principal documento de proteção (Convenção de 1951 para os Refugiados) e os instrumentos de direitos humanos, é realizada a abordagem sobre a relação dos fatores ambientais degradantes ensejarem o movimento migratório compulsório humano. Para isso, são colocadas as expressões mais utilizadas pela literatura e a opção desta pesquisa pela utilização ‘deslocados ambientais’. Com isso, fomenta-se o estudo dos projetos existentes para proteção aos que se deslocam por razões ambientais, tanto internamente quanto ao cruzarem fronteiras internacionais. São apontadas as manifestações mais atuais sobre o tema, incluindo recente recomendação do Comitê de Direitos Humanos da ONU, e são utilizados relatórios de pesquisas que apontam os números de pessoas deslocadas por fatores ambientais nos últimos anos. O estudo do caso prático ocorrido em Mariana, Minas Gerais, Brasil, promove a reflexão sobre a falta de estrutura para esses indivíduos deslocados e aponta a necessidade de unir o arcabouço existente em matéria dos direitos humanos em prol de uma proteção imediata e a necessidade de um estímulo para a construção de uma tutela específica. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the relation between the environment and human migrations. We begin by addressing the evolution of environmental issues within the global movement for the protection of the environment, and the recognition of access to an adequate environment as a human right, specifically on the part of the European and Inter-American Human Rights Systems. Based on such analysis from the perspective of the International Environmental Law, we examine the constitutional and statutory approach on the matter in Brazil and Portugal and then analyze the concepts and peculiarities regarding environmental degradation and deterioration, and environmental and human vulnerability. Our research moves on to the issue of migrations, encompassing their actual structure, the International Refugee Law, the International Human Rights Law, and the International Humanitarian Law, and elaborates on the environmentally displaced people. In an attempt to combine the concept included in the key protection document (the 1951 Refugee Convention) and the human rights instruments, it examines the relationship between the causes of environmental degradation and forced migration. For such an end, we lay out the expressions most commonly used by legal scholars, as well as our option to use the term ‘environmentally displaced person’ in this paper. This study analyses the existing projects that aim to protect those who migrate, either within the country or across borders, due to environmental causes. It also refers to the most recent statements regarding the matter, including the UN Human Rights Committee’s recommendation, and draws on reports on the quantity of environmentally displaced people in recent years. The case study related to the disaster that occurred in Mariana, Minas Gerais, Brazil, leads us to reflect on the lack of structure available for such displaced people and points to the need of deploying the human rights framework for their immediate safeguard and the creation of specific protection.
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- 2020
5. Climate Refugees: Why Measuring the Immeasurable Makes Sense Beyond Measure
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Climate change-related human movement typically occurs within a complex web of commingled contributory causative factors. Hence the multicausality inherent in human movement makes attribution or disaggregation of causality an almost intractable problem. Nevertheless, climate change is now widely recognized as a key contributing migration push factor. Moreover, there is agreement among experts that its contribution to migration, relative to other causes, is growing. This suggests a possible, if not probable, influx in “climate refugees” (Reeves and Jouzel 2010), although this term is contested in the literature (cf. Zetter 2017; Ahmed 2018; see Box 1). Adopting a posture of “preparedness” emerges as an important priority for effective adaptation to climate change, where “migration” is seen not as a “failure to adapt” but rather as a “strategy to survive”. This discourse argues that quantitative scenarios of “climate refugees” are an essential prerequisite for anticipatory adaption to climate change.
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- 2019
6. Climate Change and Human Migration as Adaptation: Conceptual and Practical Challenges and Opportunities
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Definition: Climate change-related human migration is an area of growing interest and policy concern. Although climate change is not easily isolated as the predominant cause of human movement, it is increasingly impossible to dismiss its role as a key contributing migration push factor. Moreover, there is agreement among experts that its contribution to migration, relative to other causes, will increase significantly as the effects of climate change impacts are progressively borne out in the future. This makes anticipatory migration-as-adaptation an important emergent priority (Brown 2007, 2008; Laczko and Aghazarm 2009; Hugo 2011; Luetz 2017; Ahmed 2018; Jha et al. 2018; Luetz and Havea 2018; Salerno 2018).
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- 2019
7. Representations of Environmentally Displaced People In Canadian Print Media
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Stumpf, Bianca
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Canada ,Climate migrant ,Environmentally displaced people ,Media representations ,Canadian media ,Environmental refugee - Abstract
Context: This thesis analyzes media coverage in Canada of environmentally displaced people (EDP) due to their recent prominence in political discussions on a national and international level as well as in the literature. Objectives: This thesis has three goals, notably (1) to raise awareness of EDP as a social phenomenon; (2) to understand how EDP are currently constructed in the public sphere; and (3) to analyze whether Canadian media characterizes EDP within discourses of victimization and/or devictimization. Ultimately, this thesis investigates: How does Canadian print media represent environmentally displaced people? Methodology: A total of 149 (132 English and 17 French) Canadian news articles, appearing from 2000 to 2017, were selected for analysis through a search strategy that included specific key words. The articles selected appeared in the Toronto Star, Globe & Mail, Montreal Gazette, Ottawa Citizen, Vancouver Sun, Le Journal de Québec, La Presse, and Canada Newswire. Results: The results were analyzed by using a frame analysis. Based on this analysis, a few key points were commonly used to represent EDP, including the uncertainty over which terms to use, their quantification, as well as a scare tactic to entice action towards climate change. Overall, the media tended to portray EDP using themes of devictimization. Conclusion: Future research should be conducted to continue to analyze media representations of those displaced. It is also imperative to collect more data on EDP in order to resolve the debate around their definition and officially recognize one term to help facilitate research and increase the legitimacy of those displaced - whether they are recognized as migrants or refugees.
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- 2019
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8. Dėl gamtinių nelaimių migruojantys asmenys
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Dumbrytė, Monika, Jakulevičienė, Lyra, Siniovas, Vladimiras, Katuoka, Saulius, Biekša, Laurynas, Jočienė, Danutė, and Mykolas Romeris University
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Environmentally displaced people ,Socio-economic rights ,Socialinės ir ekonominės teisės ,Law ,Non-refoulement ,Dėl gamtinių nelaimių migruojantys asmenys - Abstract
The Thesis begins with an analysis of the effects of environmental disasters and various approaches of states to mitigate them. The results of this analysis evidence that while some effects of environmental disasters are more visible and easier to evaluate, as in the case of sudden onset disasters, others are less visible and grow more deadly over time, as in the case of slow onset disasters. Moreover, the effects of environmental disasters on people depend heavily on the state’s capacity to mitigate such effects. Then Author of the Thesis turns to the existing definitions for environmentally displaced people and as all existing definitions do not take into account the level of state protection available, a new definition is proposed. The new definition limits the scope to people seeking international protection due to environmental events, for which their country of origin does not offer any protection. It is analyzed in the second part of this Thesis the application of 1951 Geneva Convention to environmentally displaced people. Based on the assessment of state practice and the works of the most prominent scholars it is showed that environmentally displaced people may in fact be refugees, however, in a very small number of scenarios. The problem is that all of those scenarios are traditional refugee situations and environmental factors are not decisive circumstances when migration authorities determine if person is entitled to refugee status. Socio-economic rights within... [to full text] Magistro baigiamasis darbas pradedamas gamtinių nelaimių sukeliamų padarinių ir valstybių veiksmų siekiant sumažinti jų padarinius analize. Analizė rodo, kad kai kurios gamtinės nelaimės gali būti lengviau pastebimos, tokios kaip staigios gamtinės nelaimės, o kitos sunkiau pastebimos ir įvertinimo, tokios kaip iš lėto besivystančios gamtinės nelaimės. Be to, gamtinių nelaimių padarinių sunkumas priklauso nuo to ar valstybė yra pajėgi sumažinti padarinius. Tuomet Magistro baigiamajame darbe yra analizuojami esami dėl gamtos nelaimių migruojančių asmenų apibrėžimai ir atsižvelgiant į tai, kad visi esami apibrėžimai nevertina kilmės valstybės teikiamos apsaugos, yra siūlomas naujas apibrėžimas. Šis apibrėžimas yra apribotas žmonėmis, siekiančiais tarptautinės apsaugos dėl gamtinių nelaimių, kurie negali pasinaudoti kilmės valstybės apsauga. Antrojoje šio Magistro baigiamojo darbo dalyje analizuojamas 1951 m. Ženevos Konvencijos „Dėl pabėgėlių statuso“ taikymas dėl gamtinių nelaimių migruojantiems asmenims. Atliktas valstybių praktikos ir doktrinos tyrimas atskleidė, kad dėl gamtinių nelaimių migruojantys asmenys gali būti pabėgėliais, tačiau tik išskirtinais atvejais. Be to, visais šiais atvejais paskatos palikti savo šalį dėl gamtinės nelaimės, nėra lemiantys faktoriai suteikti pabėgėlio statusą. Trečiojoje dalyje yra analizuojamas ryšys tarp socialinių, ekonomių teisių, non-refoulement principo ir gamtinių nelaimių. Analizė atskleidė, kad rimti socialinių, ekonominių teisių... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]
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- 2014
9. Environmentally displaced people
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The Thesis begins with an analysis of the effects of environmental disasters and various approaches of states to mitigate them. The results of this analysis evidence that while some effects of environmental disasters are more visible and easier to evaluate, as in the case of sudden onset disasters, others are less visible and grow more deadly over time, as in the case of slow onset disasters. Moreover, the effects of environmental disasters on people depend heavily on the state’s capacity to mitigate such effects. Then Author of the Thesis turns to the existing definitions for environmentally displaced people and as all existing definitions do not take into account the level of state protection available, a new definition is proposed. The new definition limits the scope to people seeking international protection due to environmental events, for which their country of origin does not offer any protection. It is analyzed in the second part of this Thesis the application of 1951 Geneva Convention to environmentally displaced people. Based on the assessment of state practice and the works of the most prominent scholars it is showed that environmentally displaced people may in fact be refugees, however, in a very small number of scenarios. The problem is that all of those scenarios are traditional refugee situations and environmental factors are not decisive circumstances when migration authorities determine if person is entitled to refugee status. Socio-economic rights within... [to full text], Magistro baigiamasis darbas pradedamas gamtinių nelaimių sukeliamų padarinių ir valstybių veiksmų siekiant sumažinti jų padarinius analize. Analizė rodo, kad kai kurios gamtinės nelaimės gali būti lengviau pastebimos, tokios kaip staigios gamtinės nelaimės, o kitos sunkiau pastebimos ir įvertinimo, tokios kaip iš lėto besivystančios gamtinės nelaimės. Be to, gamtinių nelaimių padarinių sunkumas priklauso nuo to ar valstybė yra pajėgi sumažinti padarinius. Tuomet Magistro baigiamajame darbe yra analizuojami esami dėl gamtos nelaimių migruojančių asmenų apibrėžimai ir atsižvelgiant į tai, kad visi esami apibrėžimai nevertina kilmės valstybės teikiamos apsaugos, yra siūlomas naujas apibrėžimas. Šis apibrėžimas yra apribotas žmonėmis, siekiančiais tarptautinės apsaugos dėl gamtinių nelaimių, kurie negali pasinaudoti kilmės valstybės apsauga. Antrojoje šio Magistro baigiamojo darbo dalyje analizuojamas 1951 m. Ženevos Konvencijos „Dėl pabėgėlių statuso“ taikymas dėl gamtinių nelaimių migruojantiems asmenims. Atliktas valstybių praktikos ir doktrinos tyrimas atskleidė, kad dėl gamtinių nelaimių migruojantys asmenys gali būti pabėgėliais, tačiau tik išskirtinais atvejais. Be to, visais šiais atvejais paskatos palikti savo šalį dėl gamtinės nelaimės, nėra lemiantys faktoriai suteikti pabėgėlio statusą. Trečiojoje dalyje yra analizuojamas ryšys tarp socialinių, ekonomių teisių, non-refoulement principo ir gamtinių nelaimių. Analizė atskleidė, kad rimti socialinių, ekonominių teisių... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]
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- 2014
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