U.S. national debate topic, 2014-2015. The ocean - H.W. Wilson Company (Ipswich, Massachusetts : H.W. Wilson, a division of EBSCO Information Services ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, 2014)
5, Drifting along: the rise of the environmental refugee : -- Environmental refugees in a changing global climate -- Who will become the world's first climate change refugee? / Robert McLeman -- What happens when your country drowns? / Rachel Morris -- Where will we live? / Michael Le Page, Jeff Hecht, Richard Fisher -- The rising tide: environmental refugees / Andrew Lam -- Environmental refugees growing in numbers without real solution / Trisha Marczak -- Kiribati and the impending climate refugee crisis / Sandi Keane -- Threatened by rising seas, small island nations appeal for more aid at UN / UN News Centre -- "Climate change refugee" fighting to stay in New Zealand, argues rising sea levels makes Pacific Island home too dangerous / Nick Perry -- Stop using the term "environmental refugee" / Tim Kovach -- What should be done about climate change refugees? / Debra Black -- Artificial island could be solution for rising Pacific sea levels / John Vidal -- Floating islands to the rescue in the Maldives / Debra Black -- America's first climate refugees / Suzanne Goldenberg -- Beyond asylum seeker funerals / Andrew Hamilton.
Includes bibliographical references (page 187) and index.
Keywords: Oceanography; Marine resources development; Marine resources -- Government policy; Marine resources conservation; Marine ecology; Climatic changes -- Effect of human beings on; Sea level; Marine ecology; Marine resources conservation; Marine resources development; Ocean -- Environmental aspects; Oceanography