Domestic and International Protection of Environmentally Displaced Persons in the municipality of João Pessoa (PB)

Abstract

Floods, landslides, droughts, desertification, mega-events, development projects, and so on cause conflict and destroy the environment of countless people, forcing intra-municipal displacements and leading to the need of new ways of environmental protection as well as protection of human beings dependent on this environment, although environmental disruptions can also occur as a result of these migratory movements. Given this scenario, international regimes need to be re-evaluated to protect environmentally displaced persons (EDPs), focusing on their vulnerability in their place of residence and the surrounding area. This article identifies, in João Pessoa, outbreaks of internal displacement of people by environmental issues, categorising them from the causes and the consequences for the migrant, for society and for the Government, as rains, landslides and development projects, for example, cause, there, destruction of human lives and of the local environment. The problem was "to what extent EDPs of João Pessoa, PB are forced migrants subject to international protection?", and the general aim was to find places of these displacements in the municipality, its causes and consequences, ways of protecting these EDPs, locally, nationally, and internationally, and to propose measures to protect them, with inductive, bibliographic, and case study methods

Keywords: International Protection. Environmentally Displaced Persons. João Pessoa (PB).