Environmental migrant
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Environmental migrants are people who are forced to leave their home region due to sudden or long-term changes to their local environment. These are changes which compromise their well-being or secure livelihood. Such changes are held to include increased droughts, desertification, sea level rise, and disruption of seasonal weather patterns.
The term "environmental migrant" is used somewhat interchangeably with a range of similar terms, such as ecological refugee, environmental refugee, climate refugee, forced environmental migrant, environmentally motivated migrant, climate change refugee, environmentally displaced person (EDP), disaster refugee, environmental displacee, eco-refugee, ecologically displaced person, or environmental-refugee-to-be (ERTB). The term climate exiles has been used to refer to those climate migrants who may be in danger of becoming stateless. The distinctions between these terms are contested.
Despite problems in formulating a uniform and clear-cut definition of 'environmental migration', such a concept has increased as an issue of concern in the 2000s as policy-makers, environmental and social scientists attempt to conceptualize the potential societal effects of climate change and general environmental degradation. "Unless it is assumed" in order to consider a person a climate refugee, nature or the environment could be considered the persecutor.
See also
- United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Water crisis
- Climate change
- Climate change, industry and society
- Forced displacement
- Small Island Developing States
- The Clash of Civilizations
- Alliance of Small Island States
- Kiribati (President of Kiribati Anote Tong)
- The Maldives (President of the Maldives Mohamed Nasheed)
- Managed retreat (a voluntary case, rather than a forced case)
- Refugee
- Space and survival (a hypothetical extreme case in science fiction)
