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GCSE Geography · key term
A person forced to leave their home because environmental change or a disaster makes living there unsafe or livelihoods impossible. This term does not itself confer legal refugee status.
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Specification 4.2.2 · Component 1
Revise: Sustainable Coastal ManagementAn environmental refugee is someone forced to leave home because environmental change or a disaster makes remaining there unsafe or livelihoods impossible. Climate-related displacement is one form of environmental displacement.
Environmental refugee is a geographical term; displacement caused by climate change alone does not automatically give someone legal refugee status.
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