Nordic Approaches To Climate-Related Human Mobility

Academic discussion of climate‑related human mobility has understandably focused on the places where people are especially vulnerable to climate‑related harm: the Global South. Yet, the unique biophysical, legal and socio‑political characteristics of the Nordic region, as well as its roles as both ‘home’ and ‘host’ to climate‑related mobilities, justify its independent attention. Filling this lacuna, this collection is the first to address climate‑related human mobility in the Nordic region. It is a timely and much needed collection, which brings together leading and emerging voices from both academia and practice in a single volume, spanning policy and geographical breadth. Its chapters cover both regional approaches to the global phenomenon of climate mobility, such as the traditional role of the Nordic states as norm entrepreneurs and their representation in multilateral fora, and on‑the‑ground climate impacts unique to this region and their localised responses. Case studies include judicial decision‑making as it relates to climate‑related migration, insights into the local communication of climate risk, changes to Nordic development and climate policy, as well as climate‑related mobilities of Nordic Indigenous Peoples.

This volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of disaster and climate studies, as well as climate‑related mobility, migration and displacement.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

Miriam Cullen is Associate Professor of Public Law and Sustainability at Copenhagen University, and Programme Manager, Research, at the Danish Institute for Human Rights. She researches social sustainability, climate‑related mobilities, critical perspectives on international law, in particular decolonial approaches to law and rights, with particular focus on Greenland.

Matthew Scott is leader of the Human Rights and the Environment thematic area at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute and Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law at Lund University. His work focuses on law, policy and practice relating to human mobility, disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation.