In search of refuge: Pacific islands, climate-induced migration, and the legal frontier

Asia Pacific Issues

Volumn , Issue 98, 2011, Pages 1-8

  Burkett, Maxine ^a  

^a University of Hawaii William S Richardson School of Law   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; INTERNATIONAL LAW; LEGAL RIGHTS; MIGRATION; SOCIAL IMPACT;

PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 79952825405     PISSN: 15220966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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