environmental refugee

environmental refugee
Somebody who flees a country due to environmental issues, rather than political, religious or economic ones.

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  • environmental refugee — /ɛnˌvaɪrənmɛntəl rɛfjuˈdʒi/ (say en.vuyruhnmentuhl refyooh jee) noun a person displaced from their home as a consequence of environmental degradation, as caused by natural disasters, the effects of climate change, etc …  

  • Environmental migrant — refers to the people who are purportedly forced to migrate from or flee their home region due to sudden or long term changes to their local environment, which is held to include increased droughts, desertification, sea level rise, and disruption… …   Wikipedia

  • Refugee — According to the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, a refugee is a person who owing to a well founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political… …   Wikipedia

  • refugee — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ genuine ▪ would be (esp. BrE) ▪ the government s strategy in dealing with would be refugees ▪ former, returning ▪ …   Collocations dictionary

  • Environmental Foundation for Africa — Infobox Company | company name = EFA company company type = Charity Slogan = Working for environmental protection and rehabilitation foundation = 1992, United Kingdom location = Lakka, Freetown Peninsula, Sierra Leone key people = Tommy Garnett… …   Wikipedia

  • environmental — adj. Environmental is used with these nouns: ↑affair, ↑amenity, ↑aspect, ↑awareness, ↑benefit, ↑biology, ↑catastrophe, ↑cause, ↑challenge, ↑change, ↑chemical, ↑ …   Collocations dictionary

  • Climate refugee — A Climate refugee is a displaced person caused by climate change induced environmental disasters. Such disasters are evidence of human influenced ecological change and disruption to Earth s climate system, primarily through the emissions of green …   Wikipedia

  • Conservation refugee — Conservation Refugees are people, usually indigenous, who are displaced from their native lands when conservation areas are created, such as parks and other protected areas.[1] Contents 1 Definition 1.1 Role of ENGOS 1.2 Preserving habitats or …   Wikipedia

  • climate refugee — n. A person who has been forced to relocate due to changing climate or to a disaster caused by or associated with climate change. Also: climate change refugee. Example Citations: The enormous Greenland ice sheet is melting twice as fast as it was …   New words

  • Forced migration — (also called deracination originally a French word meaning uprooting) refers to the coerced movement of a person or persons away from their home or home region. It often connotes violent coercion, and is used interchangeably with the terms… …   Wikipedia

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