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Book SynopsisClimate change is reshaping patterns of displacement around the world. Extreme weather events destroy homes, environmental degradation threatens the viability of livelihoods, sea level rise and coastal erosion force communities to relocate, and risks to food and resource security magnify the sources of political instability. Climate displacementthe displacement of people driven at least in part by the impacts of climate changeis a pressing moral challenge that is incumbent upon us to address.This book develops a political theory of climate displacement. Most work on climate displacement has tended to take an idealized climate refugee' as its focus. But focusing on the figure of the climate refugee obscures the complexity and heterogeneity of climate displacement. Instead, this book takes the empirical dynamics of climate displacement as its starting point. It examines the moral and political problems raised by the interaction of climate change and displacement in five domains: communit
Table of Contents1: The Moral Challenge of Climate Displacement 2: Against a Treaty for Climate Refugees 3: Climate Change and Community Relocation 4: Climate Change and Territorial Sovereignty 5: Climate Change and Labour Migration 6: Climate Change and the Refugee Regime 7: Climate Change and Internal Displacement 8: Sharing the Costs of Climate Displacement 9: The Future of Climate Displacement
