Justice for Climate Refugees: what do we owe to communities displaced by climate change?

气候难民正义：我们对因气候变化而流离失所的社区负有什么责任？

• 批准号: 2094721
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Oxford
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2018 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2094721
• 关键词: Justice; Climate; Refugees; what; do

Climate change poses the biggest political and ethical challenge for our shared future. With sea-level rise set to submerge several sovereign small island states, along with major cities from Jakarta to New York, we must now consider what is owed, and by whom, to those who are displaced by climate change. In particular, what is owed to communities whose entire land has been destroyed by sea-level rise, largely through no fault of their own. Island states such as Kiribati, Tuvalu, and French Polynesia are predicted to be almost entirely submerged within the coming century. So what does ethics tell us is owed to these communities by the international community, if indeed anything at all?I therefore propose to build upon and extend the work of my MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies dissertation. I hope that I will be able to undertake this thesis under the continued supervision of Professor Matthew Gibney, who has agreed to do so should I be admitted. This dissertation considered whether reparations are owed to climate refugees displaced by rising sea-levels. In my coming DPhil, I hope to extend the work of this thesis, looking at the question ofjustice for climate refugees, particularly for whole communities displaced by sea-level rise. This will primarily be a work of political theory and ethics, working at the intersection between philosophyand political science. I hope to discuss and answer questions such as:What are 'climate refugees'?Should they be given protection by UNHCR?Are communities of 'climate refugees' displaced by rising sea-levels owed compensation or eparation for this loss?Who owes compensation or reparation to climate refugees?Is the policy of island building a morally acceptable answer to the problem of climate displacement?What alternative policies - both extant and hypothetical - might provide morally acceptable answers to the problem of climate displacement?"

气候变化是我们共同未来面临的最大政治和道德挑战。随着海平面上升将使几个主权小岛屿国家以及从雅加达到纽约的主要城市沿着陷入困境，我们现在必须考虑谁欠那些因气候变化而流离失所的人什么。特别是那些整个土地都被海平面上升摧毁的社区，他们的责任主要不是他们自己的错。基里巴斯、图瓦卢和法属波利尼西亚等岛国预计将在未来世纪内几乎完全被淹没。那么，伦理学告诉我们，国际社会对这些社区负有什么责任，如果确实有任何责任的话？因此，我建议建立和扩展我在难民和强迫移民研究硕士论文的工作。我希望我将能够承担这篇论文的持续监督下教授马修Gibney，谁已经同意这样做，如果我被录取。本论文考虑了是否应向因海平面上升而流离失所的气候难民提供赔偿。在我即将到来的博士学位中，我希望能扩展这篇论文的工作，看看气候难民的正义问题，特别是因为海平面上升而流离失所的整个社区。这将主要是政治理论和伦理学的工作，在哲学和政治科学之间的交叉点工作。我希望讨论和回答这样的问题：什么是“气候变化”？难民专员办事处是否应给予他们保护？因海平面上升而流离失所的“气候难民”社区是否应该为这一损失提供赔偿或补偿？谁应该对气候难民进行补偿或赔偿？岛屿建设政策是解决气候流离失所问题的道德上可接受的答案吗？什么样的替代政策--无论是现存的还是假设的--可能为气候流离失所问题提供道德上可接受的答案？"