Defining climate-change victims |
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Authors: | Vesselin Popovski Kieran G Mundy |
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Institution: | (1) United Nations University Institute for Sustainability and Peace, Tokyo, Japan;(2) Tokiwa International Victimology Institute, Tokiwa University, Building F, 1F, 1-430-1 Miwa, Mito Ibaraki, 310-8585, Japan |
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Abstract: | This article introduces the concept of “climate-change victims” and classifies categories of threats and groups of people
who would be vulnerable to and victimized by human-induced climate change. (The full, correct wording is “human-induced climate-change
victims”, but we will use just “climate-change victims” in the rest of the article.) It offers a definition with three levels
of climate-change victimization and differentiates “climate-change victims” from “natural-disasters victims” and from “climate-change
migrants”. The article sets an agenda for a new type of victimhood and could lead to further research on possible prevention,
accountability measures, environmental tribunals, and compensation mechanisms to recompense climate-change victims. |
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