Ethics, Law and Human Rights in Climate Migration, (Hardcover)

Climate mobility brings to the fore a series of complexities about climate change, migration and human rights, and their interconnections, all of which pose huge challenges to ethical and legal action. Climate change is altering the character of human mobility in myriad ways: migration is taking new forms or altering traditional ones that are based on more linear and single-causal narratives, and the distinction between certain protection norms or frameworks is excessively rigid or outdated. In this sense the climate change-migration nexus is disruptive to law. The lack of a solid empirical foundation for the causal link between climate change and migration also explains the invisibility of climate migrants under international law. What is more, climate migration constitutes a "wicked problem", particularly in terms of ethics and equity, because it concerns a global phenomenon whose nature is essentially contested and in which causality and implications go beyond borders, with an asymmetrical impact on the Global North and the Global South. Climate migration constitutes, therefore, an unavoidable and urgent moral and governance challenge that falls on the international community to address, given the lack of political will and failure to date to meaningfully mitigate the impact of climate change. Consequently, climate migration forces us to rethink key concepts such as those of harm, claim, responsibility, obligation, reparation, compensation, equity, fairness and justice. While there is extensive literature on the ethics of climate change and the ethics of migration as well as scholarly discussion about how they each represent a crisis of existence and of governance, the book is one of the first studies to bring together these two distinct fields of study. It does so by examining the ethical dimension of climate migration and its implications for law, governance and human rights.

• Ethics, Law and Human Rights in Climate Migration, (Hardcover)
• Author: Ethics International Press, Inc
• ISBN: 9781804419779
• Format: Hardcover
• Publication Date: 2027-02-15
• Page Count: 345