Environmental Induced Internal Displacement: A New Challenge for Human Security Vis-a-Vis Internal Security -- A Literature Based Appraisal

18 Pages Posted: 3 Feb 2014

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Mithilesh Bhatt

Raksha Shakti University - Faculty of Law

Date Written: February 2, 2014

Abstract

The relationship between human security and a safe and habitable environment is fundamental and for which sustainable development is inevitable. From last few decades humans have been over exploiting the environment and their byproducts. For every such greedy act, nature takes price for it and that result in natural and human-induced environmental disasters, slow-onset degradation, higher temperatures, more extreme weather, rising sea levels, increasing cyclonic activity, earthquake, floods and droughts. Due to revenge by environment, the lives and livelihoods of those reliant on the natural environment are either jeopardized or even destroyed. Environmental insecurity is forcing masses of people to flee environments that no longer sustain life. Such movement can be within or between countries.

Environmentally induced internal displacement is becoming one of the major policy as well internal security challenges of this century. India too is facing the same. All in all, large numbers of environmentally induced internal displaced people (EIDP) are supposed to threaten the human security as well as internal security of any state. Such people put stress upon resources of land where they reached and often indulge in survival crimes. EIDP’s also prone towards crimes on them. Further these create complex environmental, humanitarian, and non traditional internal security challenges.

This paper proposes to discuss relationship between environment insecurity, internal displacement and how it threatens human security as well as internal security of a country especially in India. EIDP’s require special assistance, protection and development aid which are most of the time ill addressed by the governments concerned. The issue of EIDP’s have legal, humanitarian and human rights dimensions, and author will try to explore protection gap between all of these issues through the lens of earlier literatures.

Keywords: Human Security, Internal Security, internal displacement, Environmentally induced internal displaced people (EIDP), Environmental insecurity.

Suggested Citation

Bhatt, Mithilesh, Environmental Induced Internal Displacement: A New Challenge for Human Security Vis-a-Vis Internal Security -- A Literature Based Appraisal (February 2, 2014). OIDA International Journal of Sustainable Development, Vol. 06, No. 10, pp. 67-84, 2013, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2389778

Mithilesh Bhatt (Contact Author)

Raksha Shakti University - Faculty of Law ( email )

New Mental Corner
Meghaninagar
Ahmedabad, Gujarat 380016
India

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