1. Introduction: migration and climate change Etienne Piguet, Antoine Pecoud and Paul de Guchteneire; Part I. Evidence on the Migration-Climate Change Relationship: 2. The main climate change forecasts that might cause human displacements Martine Rebetez; 3. Climate change, migration and health in Brazil Alisson Flavio Barbieri and Ulisses E. C. Confalonieri; 4. Environmental degradation and out-migration: evidence from Nepal Pratikshya Bohra-Mishra and Douglas S. Massey; 5. Refusing 'refugee' in the Pacific: (de)constructing climate-induced displacement in international law Jane McAdam; 6. Critical views on the relationship between climate change and migration: some insights from the experience of Bangladesh Allan Findlay and Alistair Geddes; 7. Sea level rise, local vulnerability and involuntary migration Anthony Oliver-Smith; 8. Environmental change and forced migration scenarios: methods and findings from the Nile Delta, Sahel and Meking Delta Koko Warner, Alex de Sherbinin, Charles Erhart, Susana Adamo and Tricia Chai-Onn; Part II. Policy Responses, Normative Issues and Critical Perspectives: 9. Research and policy interactions in the birth of the 'environmental migration' concept Francois Gemenne; 10. Lessons from past forced resettlement for climate change migration Graeme Hugo; 11. Climate change and internal displacement: challenges to the normative framework Khalid Koser; 12. Displacement, climate change and gender Lori M. Hunter and Emmanuel David; 13. Drought, desertification and migration: past experiences, predicted impacts and human rights issues Michelle Leighton; 14. The protection of 'environmental refugees' in international law Christel Cournil; 15. 'Environmental refugees': aspects of international state responsibility Astrid Epiney; 16. Concluding remarks on the climate change-migration nexus Stephen Castles