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Contents Preface 1 Introduction 2 Multidimensional Problem of environmental refugees 3 Refugee 4 Environmental migrant 5 Refugee Camp 6 Environmental Refugees A Growing Phenomenon of the 21st Century 7 New Issues in Refugee Research 8 Conservation Refugee 9 Sri Lankan Diaspora 10 Environmental refugees Climate change affects people?s lives 11 Pre-assessment of the Environmental Impact of Refugees Bibliography IndexThe term refugee first meant one seeking asylum but has since evolved to mean one fleeing home According to the United Nations a refugee is a person who flees their home country due to a wellfounded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race religion nationally membership of a particular social group or political opinion The United Nations Environment Programme UNEP defines environmental refugees as those people who have been forced to leave their traditional habitat temporarily or permanently because of a marked environmental disruption natural andor triggered by people that jeopardized their existence andor seriously affected the quality of their life According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development OECD an environmental refugee is a person displaced owing to environmental causes notably land loss and degradation and natural disaster It is expected that the book would serve the interests of the students as a source of information for understanding and appreciating the finer aspects of Environmental Refugee 264 pp.