
Climate Displacement
Jamie Draper(Author)
Oxford University Press
Published on 17. November 2023
Book
Hardback
266 pages
978-0-19-287016-2 (ISBN)
Description
Climate 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 displacement-the displacement of people driven at least in part by the impacts of climate change-is 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: community relocation, territorial sovereignty, labour migration, refugee movement, and internal displacement. In each context, climate displacement raises distinct questions, which this book explores on their own terms. At the same time, this book treats climate displacement as a unified phenomenon by examining the overarching questions of responsibility and fairness that it raises. The result is an empirically grounded political theory that both maps the conceptual terrain of climate displacement and charts a course for meeting the moral challenge that it raises.
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: community relocation, territorial sovereignty, labour migration, refugee movement, and internal displacement. In each context, climate displacement raises distinct questions, which this book explores on their own terms. At the same time, this book treats climate displacement as a unified phenomenon by examining the overarching questions of responsibility and fairness that it raises. The result is an empirically grounded political theory that both maps the conceptual terrain of climate displacement and charts a course for meeting the moral challenge that it raises.
Reviews / Votes
Jamie Draper's Climate Displacement offers a timely and philosophical pluralist theory of climate displacement. * Kerstin Reibold, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice * Climate Displacement is essential reading not just for philosophers, but for all concerned with the plight of climate displacement and how to address it fairly. * Harrison Munday, Journal of Applied Philosophy *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
538 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-287016-2 (9780192870162)
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Person
Jamie Draper is an Assistant Professor in the Ethics Institute at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Utrecht University. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow in Politics at Nuffield College, Oxford. His research focuses on migration, climate change, and urban politics.
Author
Assistant Professor in the Ethics InstituteAssistant Professor in the Ethics Institute, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Utrecht University
Content
1: 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