Les aides d'Etat en droit communautaire et en droit national: séminaire organisé à Liège jeudi 14 et vendredi 15 mai 1998
In: Collection Commission Droit et Vie des Affaires
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In: Collection Commission Droit et Vie des Affaires
In: Bibliothèque de la Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres de l'Université de Liège 296
In: Collection non-proliferation No. 3
In: Collection scientifique de la Faculté de Droit de Université de Liege 30
In: Commission Université-Palais volume 179
In: Droit
In: Economie international
The aim of the presented paper is to demonstrate environmentally-induced displacement as an increasingly important category of population movement that represents a new set of challenges to the international community and to public international law as well1. There are three basic objectives that this work intends to achieve: 1) to argue in favour of distinguishing environmentally-induced displacement from the broader category of migratory movements and thereby making it a fully autonomous concept within the existing taxonomies, 2) to illustrate the diversity and inconsistency of environmentally displaced people (EDPs) theoretical concept, 3) to provide references to earlier theoretical achievements in this particular field of study. For these purposes, the paper tries to capture both the phenomenon of environmental displacement itself, and the problems of people affected by its consequences. Apart from theoretical considerations, it also examines which main factors force people to abandon their homes. Both long-term environmental hazards and short-lived natural disasters are investigated here, and it is shown how they entail significant implications for the dynamics of population mobility.