OA Week 2022: Open Access Books

The growth in publishing of open access books is evident from the web page of OA titles I maintain on my Forced Library blog. This bibliography highlights recent and forthcoming publications (2020-2022) that focus on climate and environmental change in the forced migration context. 

Books:

Climate Change, Disasters and People on the Move: Providing Protection under International Law (Brill/Nijhoff, Forthcoming Dec. 2022) 

- Author = Switzerland

Migration and Environmental Change in Morocco: In Search for Linkages Between Migration Aspirations and (Perceived) Environmental Changes (Springer, May 2021)

- Authors (4) = Belgium

The Politics of Climate Change Knowledge: Labelling Climate Change-induced Uprooted People (Routledge, March 2022) 

- Author = Canada

Rethinking Urban Risk and Resettlement in the Global South (UCL Press, June 2021) 

- Editors (3) = Costa Rica, India, UK 

The State of Environmental Migration (Presses Universitaires de Liège et al., 2011-2021)

- Follow the link to access all volumes.

Chapters:

"The Challenge of Climate Displacement," Chapter in Global Displacement in the Twenty-first Century: Towards an Ethical Framework (Edinburgh Univ. Press, Forthcoming Nov. 2022)

- Author = UK

"Charting a Justice-based Approach to Planned Climate Relocation for the World's Refugees," Chapter in Global Views on Climate Relocation and Social Justice: Navigating Retreat (Routledge, Oct. 2021) 

- Note: Access to the full-text of this postprint is embargoed until 13 April 2023.

- Authors (2) = UK, US

"Climate Change Displacement and Socio-economic Rights of the Child under the African Human Rights System: The Relevance of ETOs," Chapter in Routledge Handbook on Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations (Routledge, Dec. 2021) 

- Author = South Africa

"Climate-Induced Migration in West Africa," Chapter in Migration in West Africa: IMISCOE Regional Reader (Springer, July 2022)

- Authors (2) = Ghana

"Does Climate Change Cause Migration?," Chapter in Refuge in a Moving World: Tracing Refugee and Migrant Journeys Across Disciplines (UCL Press, July 2020)

- Author = Norway

“Migraciones ambientales: marcos normativos y políticas públicas en América Latina y el Caribe,” Chapter in (Re)pensando el vínculo entre migración y crisis: Perspectivas desde América Latina y Europa (CALAS & CLASCO, 2021) 

- Author = Brazil

"Migration Induced by Climate Change and Environmental Degradation in the Central Mediterranean Route," Chapter in Migration in West and North Africa and Across the Mediterranean: Trends, Risks, Development and Governance (IOM, Sept. 2020) 

- Also available in French.

- Author = Germany

"Recognition and Protection of Environmental Migrants in International Law," Chapter in Dignity in Movement: Borders, Bodies and Rights (E-International Relations, June 2021)

- Author = Italy

"The Role of National Law and Policy in Addressing Displacement in the Context of Disasters and Climate Change in Asia and the Pacific," Chapter in Climate Change, Disasters, and Internal Displacement in Asia and the Pacific: A Human Rights-Based Approach (Routledge, Nov. 2020)

- Author = Sweden

"Vessel for Drowning Persons? The Standard-Setting Potential of International Human Rights Litigation in Addressing Climate Displacement," Chapter in Yearbook of International Disaster Law Online, vol. 3, no. 1 (2020; published Feb. 2022)

- Authors (2) = Netherlands/Fiji, Netherlands