Climate change, environmental change and human migration: lessons learned from empirical studies in the global South
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Date
22 Apr 2015, 12:30pm
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Location
CDS Seminar Room (S103), University of South Pacific, 1st Floor, Faculty of Business and Economics Building
Presenter: Andrea Milan. United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security,Bonn, Germany
Abstract: This presentation will be based on recent empirical work on climate change, environmental change and migration in Africa, Asia, Southern and Central America and the Pacific Islands. In the first part, empirical results from the “Where the Rain Falls” (Rainfalls) (2011-2013) project, a multi-country empirical action research study on the relationship between rainfall variability, food security and human mobility will be presented. A focus on the latest methodological developments aimed at enhancing understanding of common patterns of human mobility in areas where people are highly exposed to climatic and environmental stressors, will set the scene for the introduction of the UNU-EHS’ current research in Haiti and the Pacific Islands where such methods have recently been applied. Building on these methodological reflections and empirical results, Mr. Milan will then conclude by presenting the policy implications of the influence of climate change on different forms of human mobility.
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Presenter: Mr. Andrea Milan is a research associate at the United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) in Bonn (Germany) and GPAC PhD Fellow in Governance and Policy Analysis at the United Nations University Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute for Innovation and Training (UNU-MERIT) and Maastricht Graduate School of Governance (MGSOG) in Maastricht (the Netherlands). Mr. Milan’s work focuses on human migration in vulnerable environments in the global South.
Mr. Milan started working on these issues in 2009 at the United Nations Division for Sustainable Development (UNDESA-DSD); in 2010, he obtained a Master's degree in Applied Economy and Economic Policies at the University of Ferrara (Italy) with a thesis on "Environmentally Induced Migration and Sustainable Development". From 2011, he works at UNU-EHS in Bonn and he has conducted empirical research on this topic in Bangladesh, Guatemala, Haiti, Kiribati, Mexico, Nauru, Peru and Tuvalu.
Wednesday, April 22 2015
12:30-1:30pm - CDS Seminar Room (S103), University of South Pacific
1st Floor, Faculty of Business and Economics Building
For enquiries please contact Andreea Torre on torre_a@usp.ac.fj