Interpretative and legal problems of definition and status of environmental migrants
Piotr Krajewski
Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w OlsztynieAbstract
Climate and environmental changes create, above all, several existential nuisances. There are, among others the cause of the mass movement of people in search of safe shelter and livelihoods. However, they pose considerable problems of a legal nature, and with the political, social and organizational. The article aims to present the basic difficulties in the legal definition of environmental refugees (migrants), and thus in determining their status and the scope of possible protection. It is therefore about identifying and discussing the reasons for the “resistance” of states and the international community to
active (legislative) response to the growing wave of environmental migration
Keywords:
international law, environmental migrations, environmental changes, refugee statusReferences
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