1. The Puzzle and the Method2. Conceptual Debates: Climate Refugees versus Climate Change-induced Displacements/Migrants3. Knowledge and Knowledge Network Theory4. Climate Change and Population Movement in Bangladesh5. Components of the Knowledge Network Theory: Actors, Knowledge Brokers and Climate Finance6. The Shift from Climate Refugees to Climate Change-induced Displacement7. Transnational Network: Bringing National and Local Interests in Line with the Donors⁰́₉ Interests8. The Present and the Future

This book addresses political knowledge of climate change and its relation to labelling people affected by climate change, either as ⁰́₈climate refugees⁰́₉ or as ⁰́₈climate change-induced displaced people or migrants⁰́₉. By questioning the knowledge of climate change and subsequent labelling of people, this book will spark debate in studies of global climate politics and transnational policy network. Rather than considering the issue of climate change as a given phenomenon, the author explores how the politicized knowledge of climate change has been produced in international negotiations and how that knowledge is transmitted from global forums to local country levels via climate change action plans and resilience projects. This book introduces the concept of multi-scalar knowledge brokers (MKBs) ⁰́₃ individual actors who work at multiple levels (local, national, and international) to transmit the knowledge of climate change from global level to local level. The author uses the primary case study of Bangladesh to demonstrate how the dominant actors in global climate politics ⁰́₄ the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and the World Bank, as well as the USA and the UK ⁰́₄ interact with the government and local NGOs in Bangladesh regarding transmitting the knowledge of climate change, labelling the uprooted people, and implementing resilience projects. This book will be of interest to students, scholars, and practitioners of international relations, environmental politics, climate change studies, political ecology, political geography, and migration and displacement studies.

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