Climate Conflicts - A Case of International Environmental and Humanitarian Law
The book addresses the question of whether the currently available instruments of international environmental and international humanitarian law are applicable to climate conflicts. It clarifies the different pathways leading from climate change to confli
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Climate Conflicts A Case of International Environmental and Humanitarian Law
Climate Conflicts - A Case of International Environmental and Humanitarian Law
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Silke Marie Christiansen
Climate Conflicts - A Case of International Environmental and Humanitarian Law
Silke Marie Christiansen Faculty of Business and Economics Leuphana University Lu¨neburg Lu¨neburg, Germany
Lu¨neburg, University Leuphana, Dissertation, 2015. ISBN 978-3-319-27943-5 ISBN 978-3-319-27945-9 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-27945-9
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Preface and Acknowledgments
When I finished my presentation to the committee of the Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt where I was applying for the funding of this work, a professor who sat on the board declared: ‘Your topic doesn’t exist.’ He later clarified what he meant by this statement, explaining that he would like if I made climate conflicts a legal topic. His words stayed with me throughout the project. They reminded me that I had to be both brave and creative by entering new territory while also cautious and conscientious in order to insure that all conclusions would be relevant, substantial, convincing, and capable of withstanding criticism. I had to tackle two areas: the first—to establish whether climate change leads to conflict; the second—whether or not climate conflicts entail legal relevance. Thus, on the one hand I needed to cover the scientific bases and findings of many nonlegal researchers while on the other hand apply different bodies of international law to a new concept, a concept that I still cannot to this day claim with absolute certainty exists—absolute tangible evidence is still lacking. The logical way to proceed was to s
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