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Environmental Refugees
Environmental Refugees
Would you know an environmental refugee if you saw one?
As a recent spate of natural disasters ably demonstrates, thousands of people can be driven from their homes with no place to go other than away from the devastation, and global climate disruption promises to make evacuation for environmental reasons a more frequent occurrence. The United Nations University's Institute for Environment and Human Security is now looking at the issue of environmental refugees, and how best to recognize and support them (PDF). One of the big questions is precisely how to define "environmental refugee."
The UNU says that, by 2010, the world will have as many as 50 million people driven from their homes by environmental crises...
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