Climate-Related Human Mobility in Asia and the Pacific: Interdisciplinary Rights-Based Approaches

Stellina Jolly is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Legal Studies, South Asian University (SAU). She is a Visiting Senior Research Associate with the Centre for Emerging Countries in private international law at the University of Johannesburg. Dr. Jolly is a Fulbright Scholar with the University of San Francisco and a recipient of the International Visitors Leadership Program (IVLP). She researches international environmental law and conflict of laws. In environmental law, her research papers have explored the north-south dimensions of environmental justice. She has published in several leading international journals like Transnational Environmental Law, Washington Journal of Environmental Law and Policy, Texas Environmental Law Journal, and Chinese Journal of Environmental Law, to name a few. She also has to her credit, a book on Indian private international law. She has co-edited a volume published (2017) by Springer on private international law of South Asian jurisdictions. Her book, 'Climate Refugees in South Asia', also published by Springer (2019), explores the legal and policy framework of climate refugees in South Asia. She has also elaborately written on environmental justice and governance concerns and intersectionalities of climate change, water, gender, disaster management, and sustainable development goals focusing on South Asian jurisdictions. Her recent research also focuses on emerging global trend of the rights of nature. In her research, she advocates an approach based on just sustainability, hybrid law mechanism, and environmental justice to tide over the ecological crisis. She is a member of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law and part of the Network of Environmental Law Champions, Asian Development Bank. She has undertaken projects and consultancies with various organizations, including the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, European Union, International Renewable Energy Agency(IRENA), and Asia Europe Foundation. She was awarded an educational grant on Civil Society Law from International Centre for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL) and USAID.

Nafees Ahmad is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Legal Studies, South Asian University (SAU), New Delhi. He holds a doctorate in international refugee law and human rights. His scholarship focuses on RAMS (refugees, asylum-seekers, migrants, stateless) and the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in their protection, global forced displacement, global circumstantial migration (GCM) governance, and climate refugees in South Asia. He also addresses the international politics of asylum, refugee policy paradigms, invisible frames of asylum, disconnects of durable solutions, and SAARC connects and contexts of refugee protection. He conceived and introduced a new SAARC-specific Program in 2011 called Comparative Constitutional Law of SAARC Nations (CCLSAARCN) at the LLM level. He publishes inter-alia in the International Handbook on Disaster Research (Springer 2023), The Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (2023), Groningen Journal of International Law (The Netherlands), Harvard International Law Journal (Harvard), Asia-Pacific Journal of Human Rights and Law, International Journal of Environment and Waste Management, International Journal on Minority and Group Rights, Kings' Student Law Review (KCL-London), ISIL Year Book on International Humanitarian Law and Refugee Law, ELCOP Year Book of Human Rights and NUJS International Journal of Legal Studies and Research (IJLSR) etc. Dr. Ahmad has co-authored a book on 'Climate Refugees in South Asia' (Springer 2019). He is a member of Editorial Advisory Board of Iranian Journal of International and Comparative Law. Dr. Ahmad has been a Resource Person and External Reviewer for the Ministry of Law; Government ofIndia-sponsored Research Project on "Judicial Reforms since June 2016" at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM-Kashipur) and accomplished an ICSSR Project on "The Muncipal Solid Waste Management in Delhi: A Socio-Legal Study of Okhla Lanfill." Further, he has been a visiting professor at the Indian Society of International Law (ISIL), Jamia Milia Islamia-New Delhi, and Judicial Academies of various states of India.

Mathew Scott co-leads the Human Rights and the Environment thematic area at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in Lund, Sweden. His scholarship integrates social science perspectives with international legal standards to promote context-sensitive, human rights-based law, policy, and practice relating to disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. Dr. Scotts' primary area of expertise concerns migration and displacement in the context of disasters and climate change, on which he published a monograph entitled 'Climate Change, Disasters and the Refugee Convention' (2020), an edited volume entitled 'Climate Change, Disasters and Internal Displacement in Asia and the Pacific: A Human Rights-Based Approach' (2021), and a range of book chapters and academic articles in, amongst others, the International Journal of Refugee Law, the Nordic Journal of International Law and the Yearbook of International Disaster Law. The edited volume was a major output of a regional thematic study he coordinated as part of RWI's Asia-Pacific programme on human rights and sustainable development. Dr. Scott works on the role of local authorities in addressing climate- and disaster-related migration and displacement and how human rights law can contribute to building resilience to pandemic risk. He holds a PhD in Public International Law from Lund University (2018) and an MA in Social Anthropology of Development from SOAS (1998). He practiced immigration and asylum law before entering academia. He is a member of the advisory committee of the Platform on Disaster Displacement, a member of the editorial board of the Yearbook of International Disaster Law, and a founding member of the Nordic Network on Climate-Related Displacement and Mobility. At Lund University, he convenes the LLM course on human rights law, the environment, and climate change and lectures on international refugee and human rights law at the Faculty of Law. He also lectures on the M.Sc. programme in Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation at the Department of Risk Management and Societal Safety. He is also actively engaged in international collaboration initiatives and currently contributing technical expertise on human rights-based approaches to disaster risk reduction across eight countries in Asia in collaboration with the Asia Disaster Preparedness Center, Stockholm Environment Institute, and the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency.

Stellina Jolly是南亞大學（SAU）法律學院的副教授。她是約翰尼斯堡大學私法國際法新興國家中心的訪問高級研究員。Jolly博士是舊金山大學的富布萊特學者，也是國際訪客領導計畫（IVLP）的獲獎者。她的研究領域包括國際環境法和法律衝突。在環境法方面，她的研究論文探討了環境正義的南北維度。她在多本領先的國際期刊上發表過文章，如《跨國環境法》、《華盛頓環境法與政策期刊》、《德克薩斯環境法期刊》和《中國環境法期刊》等。她還出版了一本有關印度私法國際法的書籍。她共同編輯了一本於2017年由Springer出版的關於南亞法域私法國際法的專著。她的書籍《南亞的氣候難民》，同樣由Springer於2019年出版，探討了南亞氣候難民的法律和政策框架。她還詳細撰寫了有關環境正義和治理問題，以及氣候變遷、水資源、性別、災害管理和可持續發展目標的交集，重點關注南亞法域。她最近的研究也集中於自然權利的全球新興趨勢。在她的研究中，她倡導基於公正可持續性、混合法律機制和環境正義的方法，以應對生態危機。她是國際自然保護聯盟（IUCN）世界環境法委員會的成員，也是亞洲開發銀行環境法冠軍網絡的一部分。她曾與多個組織進行項目和顧問合作，包括拉吉夫·甘地基金會、歐洲聯盟、國際可再生能源機構（IRENA）和亞洲歐洲基金會。她獲得了國際非營利法律中心（ICNL）和美國國際開發署（USAID）提供的公民社會法律教育補助金。

Nafees Ahmad是南亞大學（SAU）法律學院的副教授，位於新德里。他擁有國際難民法和人權的博士學位。他的學術研究集中於RAMS（難民、尋求庇護者、移民、無國籍者）及人工智慧（AI）在其保護中的角色、全球強迫流離失所、全球情境移民（GCM）治理以及南亞的氣候難民。他還探討了庇護的國際政治、難民政策範式、庇護的隱形框架、持久解決方案的脫節，以及南亞區域合作聯盟（SAARC）在難民保護中的聯繫和背景。他於2011年在LLM層級提出並引入了一個新的SAARC專屬計畫，名為SAARC國家的比較憲法法（CCLSAARCN）。他在《國際災害研究手冊》（Springer 2023）、《亞洲人權與人道法年鑑》（2023）、《格羅寧根國際法期刊》（荷蘭）、《哈佛國際法期刊》（哈佛）、《亞太人權與法期刊》、《國際環境與廢物管理期刊》、《少數群體權利國際期刊》、《國王學生法學評論》（KCL-倫敦）、《國際人道法與難民法ISIL年鑑》、《人權ELCOP年鑑》和《NUJS國際法律研究期刊》（IJLSR）等期刊上發表文章。Ahmad博士共同撰寫了《南亞的氣候難民》（Springer 2019）一書。他是《伊朗國際與比較法期刊》編輯諮詢委員會的成員。Ahmad博士曾擔任印度政府法律部的資源人員和外部審查員。