Research On Legal Issues Of Environmental Refugee Protection

With the rapid development of economy,a series of environmental problems happened frequently.For instance,many natural or man-made disasters like earthquake,typhoon,drought,desertification,contributed to an increasing number of environmental refugees which was an extremely severe issue for countries all over the world.Thousands of environmental refugees had to leave their motherlands and become homeless.As a result of the lagging research in environmental refugees' protection,the existing refugee protection system were not open to the environmental refugees.Thus,they cannot enjoy the same aid as traditional refugees whose aid was maintained by law constraints.This thesis is based on the International Law,through study the definition and protection principles of environmental refugees to figure out the problems in the process of environmental protection.By analyzing the legal basis for the protection of environmental refugees in existing international legal norms,in order to propose and demonstrate a way that the problem can be solved with the International Law.This thesis is divided into four parts:The first part is an introduction of environmental refugees' basic theories.Including the concept and classification of environmental refugees based on three different criteria as well as two causes of the problem.The second part summarized the protection system of environmental refugees.This section consists of three factors:protection subject,principles and content of the environmental refugees.By means of the study of existing protection system to reveal the matters in the protection procedure.The third part is an analysis of the international legal basis for the protection of environmental refugees.Through analyzing the present International Human Rights Law,International Environmental Law,refugee conventions and other legal documents in the relevant provisions so as to provide the theoretical support of policies which I would illuminate below.Several issues that during the protection process are going to be demonstrated in the last part.Aiming at these problems,some corresponding strategies are expounded.