Environmental Justice and the Rights of Ecological Refugees (Hardcover)

Prologue Part I: Present Refugee Law: Political and Legal Issues and Problems 1: The Question of Environmental Refugees 2: International Assistance and the Refugee Convention's Five Grounds of Persecution 3: State Protection and State Responsibility to Ecological Refugees Part II: Ecological Refugees and Refugee Law: The Interface 4: The Five Grounds Revisited: Who are the Vulnerable? 5: Ecological Refugees: Protection and Rights in International Law Part III: The Way Forward: Existing Legal Instruments and New Provisions 6: International Law Beyond the Convention on the Status of Refugees 7: Towards a Comprehensive Approach to Protecting Refugees and the Internally Displaced