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I would like to draw your attention to the publication of the Research Handbook on Climate Change, Migration and the Law (Benoit Mayer & François Crépeau eds., Edward Elgar pub.).

This book constitutes the attempt of more than 30 scholars and stakeholders to take stock of current developments and debates on the climate-migration nexus from a legal perspective.

The introduction is attached.

Synopsis

This comprehensive Research Handbook provides an overview of the debates on how the law does, and could, relate to migration exacerbated by climate change. It contains conceptual chapters on the relationship between climate change, migration and the law, as well as doctrinal and prospective discussions regarding legal developments in different domestic contexts and in international governance.

Reception

‘The breadth and depth this book brings to the legal issues surrounding climate-related displacement and migration are simply unmatched. The contributors explain the conceptual difficulties in identifying “climate migrants,” analyze the weaknesses in the current legal and institutional framework, identify gaps, and propose innovative solutions. The volume should be read by everyone interested in the topic, from those learning about it for the first time to policymakers trying to address one of the most difficult challenges climate change poses.’

– John H. Knox, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment and Wake Forest University, School of Law, US

‘While many publications on the climate change-migration nexus present a specific and oftentimes narrow approach to this topic, Mayer and Crépeau succeed in bringing together a wealth of different and sometimes contradicting perspectives. The Research Handbook is a comprehensive and thought-provoking collection of high-quality contributions and thus essential reading for everyone interested in the current state of art in a field that addresses one of the biggest challenges of the 21st century.’

– Walter Kälin, University of Bern, Germany

Contents
1. Introduction -- Benoît Mayer and François Crépeau

Part I Perspectives on the climate-migration nexus
2. Climate-related migration and its linkages to vulnerability, adaptation, and socio-economic inequality: evidence from recent examples -- Robert McLeman

3. ‘Climate-induced migration’: ways forward in the face of an intrinsically equivocal concept  -- Calum T.M. Nicholson

4. Representation and misrepresentation of climate migrants -- Carol Farbotko

Part II Existing laws and institutions
5. The inadequacy of international refugee law in response to environmental migration -- Christel Cournil

6. The relevance of the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement for the climate change-migration nexus -- Elizabeth Ferris
7. Climate Change, Human Rights and Migration: A Legal Analysis of Challenges and Opportunities -- Siobhán McInerney-Lankford
8. Indigenous peoples, climate migration and international human rights law in Africa, with reflections on the relevance of the Kampala Convention -- Ademola Oluborode Jegede
9. International Climate Change Law Perspectives -- Maxine Burkett
10. Displacement Due to Responses to Climate Change: The Role of a Rights-Based Approach -- Sébastien Jodoin, Kathryn Hansen and Caylee Hong
11. Climate change, migration and the law of State responsibility -- Benoit Mayer
12. Regional responses to climate change and migration in Latin America -- Erika Pires Ramos and Fernanda de Salles Cavedon Capdeville
13. Organizational perspectives: International Organization for Migration’s role and perspectives on climate change, migration and the law  -- Gervais Appave, Alice Sironi, Mariam Traore Chazalnoel, Dina Ionesco and Daria Mokhnacheva 
14. Organizational Perspective from the International Labour Organization -- Sophia Kagan, Meredith Byrne and Michelle Leighton
15. Engaging the media on climate-linked migration -- Alex Randall

Part III Ways forward?
16. Ethical Duties to Climate Migrants -- Katrina M. Wyman
17. When climate-induced migration meets loss and damage: a weakening agenda-setting process? -- Chloé Anne Vlassopoulos 
18. The refugees of the Anthropocene -- François Gemenne
19. Towards a Global Governance System to Protect Climate Migrants: Taking Stock -- Frank Biermann and Ingrid Boas
20. Towards a Climate Change Displacement Facility -- Ilona Millar and Kylie Wilson
21. Towards an extension of complementary protection? -- Susan F. Martin
22. Afterword -- James C. Hathaway

Best regards

Benoit Mayer

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, Chinese University of Hong Kong

http://www.benoitmayer.com