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Book review: Climate Change, Forced Migration, and International Law , written by Jane McAdam

Book review: Climate Change, Forced Migration, and International Law , written by Jane McAdam Climate Change, Forced Migration, and International Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), ISBN: 978-0-19-958708-7, pp. xviii + 319. Over the course of July and early August 2010, Pakistan experienced the worst monsoon-related floods ever faced in its recorded history. Heavy rainfall, flash floods and riverine floods devastated large parts of Pakistan since the arrival of seasonal monsoon rains on 22 July. The floods affected 20% of the country, rendering almost 20 million people homeless and causing around 2000 dead and billions of dollars in losses and damages to infrastructure, housing, agriculture, livestock, and other family assets. The United Nations rated the floods in Pakistan as a huge disaster affecting more people than the South-East Asian tsunami and the earthquakes in Kashmir and Haiti combined. However, the case of Pakistan is just one example of those catastrophic events predominantly described (also by the United Nations) as “natural disasters” and managed as such. But what about “climate change-induced” or “environmental” displacement in such contexts? Environmental degradation brought about by climate change, as a driver of population movement, has recently gained increasing attention from researchers and scholars from different fields as well as from activists and the media. This crucial topic http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png International Community Law Review (continuation of International Community Law Review and Non-State Actors and International Law) Brill

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Brill
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© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Book Review
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1871-9740
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1871-9732
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10.1163/18719732-12341279
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Climate Change, Forced Migration, and International Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), ISBN: 978-0-19-958708-7, pp. xviii + 319. Over the course of July and early August 2010, Pakistan experienced the worst monsoon-related floods ever faced in its recorded history. Heavy rainfall, flash floods and riverine floods devastated large parts of Pakistan since the arrival of seasonal monsoon rains on 22 July. The floods affected 20% of the country, rendering almost 20 million people homeless and causing around 2000 dead and billions of dollars in losses and damages to infrastructure, housing, agriculture, livestock, and other family assets. The United Nations rated the floods in Pakistan as a huge disaster affecting more people than the South-East Asian tsunami and the earthquakes in Kashmir and Haiti combined. However, the case of Pakistan is just one example of those catastrophic events predominantly described (also by the United Nations) as “natural disasters” and managed as such. But what about “climate change-induced” or “environmental” displacement in such contexts? Environmental degradation brought about by climate change, as a driver of population movement, has recently gained increasing attention from researchers and scholars from different fields as well as from activists and the media. This crucial topic

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International Community Law Review (continuation of International Community Law Review and Non-State Actors and International Law) – Brill

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