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Title [sv]
Efter floden: Klimatmigration och den rika världens skyldigheter
Title [en]
After the Flood: Climate Migration and Obligations of the Developed World
Abstract [sv]
This project will investigate a number of normative issues surrounding climate migration. More specifically, it will address questions about the moral obligations held by the developed world toward individuals in developing countries who flee their homes for reasons of climatic change, and the home and destination countries of these migrants.Climatic changes already cause migration and it is predicted that this problem will exacerbate rapidly. Developed countries carry the greater share of responsibility for climatic changes. At the same time, developing countries carry the greatest burdens. This asymmetry between responsibility and vulnerability triggers issues of fairness.We usually think that a state has a right to control access to its territory and to decide whether particular immigrants will be allowed to stay or not. When it comes to climate migration a complication is added in that that the developed world is mainly responsible for creating the problem. We should ask then, whether it is reasonable that wealthy states treat environmental migrants as they treat conventional immigrants?We should also ask whether the developed world´s responsibility for creating the climate migrant problem has implications for the wider issue of global justice. Could the problem be construed as a breach of the territorial rights of the affected developing countries? If that is the case, would international redistribution be required for reasons of compensatory justice?
Principal InvestigatorÖdalen, Jörgen
Coordinating organisation
Uppsala University
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Period
2010-01-01 － 2011-12-31
Identifiers
DiVA, id: project:3712Project, id: 2009-01748_VR

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