Climate Change, Coastal Erosion, and Displacement: Revisiting Transboundary Environmental Justice Through the Case of Egypt’s Nile Delta

This paper examines how environmental migration, justice, and governance intersect in the context of climate change. The study focuses on Egypt’s Nile Delta as case. The Nile Delta, which is one of the most vulnerable regions in the World in terms of climate, has the risk from sea level rise and consequently land loss. The main argument of this research is that due to these factors, people are forced to migrate from Nile Delta region both just because of social and political inequalities but also due to environmental pressures. There is the lack of resources, unequal resource access, exclusion of society from decision-making process and fragmented governance. From a justice-oriented perspective, this study assesses the top-down adaptation strategies of the government which focuses on the infrastructure over the needs of populations. Under this claim, this study first discussed the theoretical framework which is environmental justice and environmental migration. Then, the sea level rise and migration risk in the Nile Delta are examined as a case. After that, the governance, participation and climate justice in the Nile Delta are considered. Before the conclusion, the discussion on environmental migration, transnational justice and regional governance are conducted from the case of the Nile Delta.