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Escaping climate change: Who are the “environmental migrants” in international law?
- Source: Freedom from Fear, Volume 2016, Issue 12, Nov 2016, p. 32 - 39
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- 16 Nov 2016
Abstract
The term “environmental refugees” was used for the first time in 1985, when the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) researcher Essam El-Hinnawi defined these persons as those “who have been forced to leave their traditional habitat, temporarily or permanently, because of a marked environmental disruption (natural and/or triggered by people) that jeopardized their existence and/or seriously affected the quality of their life.”
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