Environmental justice and the rights of ecological refugees / Laura Westra.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

-- The question of environmental refugees -- International assistance and the refugee convention's five grounds of persecution -- State protection and state responsibility to ecological refugees -- The five grounds revisited : who are the vulnerable? -- Ecological refugees : protection and rights in international law -- International law beyond the convention on the status of refugees -- Towards a comprehensive approach to protecting refugees and the internally displaced.