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Conceptualizing discourses on environmental refugees at the United Nations

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Erschienen in: Population and Environment | Ausgabe 1/2007

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Abstract

This paper conceptualizes the absence of multilateral protection for environmental refugees. It does this by critically scrutinizing interviews conducted with United Nations ambassadors and senior diplomats in 2004 (n = 45) in a number of key policy-making locations. These interviews reveal that an absence of policy on environmental refugees has been reproduced by discursive politics at the United Nations. The reasons for which are explored here in this paper, and include shifting attitudes towards the role of multilateralism and environmental issues generally.

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Titel: Conceptualizing discourses on environmental refugees at the United Nations
verfasst von: Karen Elizabeth McNamara
Publikationsdatum: 01.09.2007
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in: Population and Environment / Ausgabe 1/2007
Print ISSN: 0199-0039
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-7810
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11111-007-0058-1