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As global climate change continues to alter the environment, humans are moving. In this context, human mobility can be an empowered adaptation strategy or an unwelcome necessity for survival with a high cost. Existing legal frameworks provide only a patchwork of protection for some climate change mobility scenarios. In Humans on the Move, Grant Dawson and Rachel Laut investigate the development of an adaptive approach to climate change mobility and explore how transformational adaptation strategies can—and must—be integrated with a rights-based approach.

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'. ..overall this is a highly successful volume. The editors are to be commended for an interesting and worthy collection of articles, logically organized, and tightly edited... The contributors are to be commended for rising to the challenge posed in Johnston's opening essay. They offer the reader interesting and thought provoking insights into the intellectual and social world of ancient divination. Divination is unveiled as an omnipresent and ubiquitous phenomenon in the public and private lives of the Greeks and Romans. At every turn, one finds divination integrated into the thought processes of the ancients. Its pervasive influence in religion, poetry, history, philosophy, and magic is manifest and profound. It is high time that the modern academy looked to the paradoxical world of ancient divination as a challenge to the intellect, an ainigma to be solved, and revealed its centrality in the epistemology of ancient Greece and Rome. ' Alex Nice, BCMR, 2006 ' Das Buch ist eine unverzichtbare Lekture fur alle, die sich mit antiker Divination beschaftigen. ' Karin Schlapbach, 2005 ' ...overall this is a highly successful volume. The editors are to be commended for an interesting and worthy collection of articles, logically organized, and tightly edited... The contributors are to be commended for rising to the challenge posed in Johnston's opening essay. They offer the reader interesting and thought provoking insights into the intellectual and social world of ancient divination. Divination is unveiled as an omnipresent and ubiquitous phenomenon in the public and private lives of the Greeks and Romans. At every turn, one finds divination integrated into the thought processes of the ancients. Its pervasive influence in religion, poetry, history, philosophy, and magic is manifest and profound. It is high time that the modern academy looked to the paradoxical world of ancient divination as a challenge to the intellect, an ainigma to be solved, and revealed its centrality in the epistemology of ancient Greece and Rome. ' Alex Nice, BCMR , 2006 ' Das Buch ist eine unverzichtbare Lekture fur alle, die sich mit antiker Divination beschaftigen. ' Karin Schlapbach, 2005

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Grant Dawson, J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, has worked for the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and the United Nations. A member of the bars of New York and Washington, D.C., he has lectured and published on a wide range of international legal subjects. Rachel Laut, J.D., Harvard Law School, has practiced in private and public international law. A member of the New York Bar, she has authored and contributed to several publications on international law.

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