Essays about: "Environmental migrants"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 19 essays containing the words Environmental migrants.

  1. 6. The Protection of Human Rights in the Context of Climate Change : Non-refoulement Obligations under Article 3 ECHR to Protect Environmental Migrants?

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Emma Cederberg; [2020]
    Keywords : Human rights law; Climate change; Non-refoulement obligations; Environmental migrants; Article 3 ECHR; Slow onset events of climate change;

    Abstract : The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) notes in its Fifth Assessment Report from 2014 that states are the main cause of anthropogenic gas emissions. Furthermore, scientists predict that displacement across border for reasons of climate change will increase rapidly in the coming decades. READ MORE

  3. 7. Who’s responsible? : A study of strategies for handling climate migration

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

    Author : My Andersson; [2019]
    Keywords : climate migration; climate change; framing; problem definition; sustainable development.;

    Abstract : The issue of climate migration has long been struggling to make its way onto the international agenda. This study therefore set out to shed a light on eleven strategies for handling climate migration. The study builds on the work by Ransan-Cooper et al. READ MORE

  4. 8. BEHIND THE WORDS: RISING SEAS, DROWNING VOICES - a critical discourse analysis of Swedish press narratives on environmental migration & displacement

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

    Author : Jonas Nyman; [2019]
    Keywords : Environmental migration; Climate change; Media influence; Sweden; Critical studies; Discourse analysis; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : As the physical consequences of climate change continues to augment, possibly millions of people might be forced to migrate. Those most likely to be forced to move are people living in poor countries in the Global South where vulnerability levels are generally high and the capacity to adapt is often low due to socio-economic difficulties and political insecurity. READ MORE

  5. 9. Factors affecting timing of seasonal migration by roe deer (Capreolus capreolus)

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Ecology

    Author : Linda Höglund; [2018]
    Keywords : roe deer; Capreolus capreolus; seasonal migration; home range; NDVI;

    Abstract : Roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) live in diverse environmental conditions due to their wide distribution. Because of their high variety of living conditions it is common that some individuals in a population have different summer and winter areas. READ MORE

  6. 10. Effectiveness of a fish-guiding device for downstream migrating smolts of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) in the River Piteälven,northern Sweden

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental Studies

    Author : Linda Vikström; [2016]
    Keywords : salmon smolt; spill gate passage; turbine-mortality; fish way; guidance structure;

    Abstract : Hydropower poses a major threat to both upstream and downstream migrating Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.). To ensure a relatively safe route for migrating fish, fish ways and different guidance structures are constructed to help fish to bypass the turbine intakes to power stations. READ MORE