Deep Climate Conversations: A Roundtable Discussion on Climate Migration (11/16/23)
Posted: 11/9/2023 ()
The Environmental Politics and Governance network has launched a new initiative, Deep Climate Conversations. This will be an online structured roundtable (i.e., questions circulated in advance to speakers) on a specific issue. The objective is to explore climate issues at a deeper, theoretical level. The event focused on climate migration will take place on Thursday, Nov. 16th from 9:00-10:15 PST. It will be held online (register in advance here).
This will be a 75-minute event: 60 minutes for discussion of planned questions, leaving about 15 minutes for comments from the audience. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Moderators
Jennifer Hadden, University of Maryland, College Park
Aseem Prakash, University of Washington Seattle
Panelists
Roman Hoffmann, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Vally Koubi, ETH Zurich
Valerie Mueller, Arizona State University
Alex de Sherbinin, Columbia University
The roundtable will focus on the following questions:
- From your perspective, what are the key debates in the area of climate migration? Is the climate migration issue suffering from over-attribution given that wars, conflicts, and economic factors have historically been big drivers of cross-national migration? How do scholars isolate the effect of climate change on migration outcomes?
- How central is the migration issue to the politics of climate change? Are COPs neglecting this subject? Should climate migration be subsumed under adaptation, or do we need a new conceptual category to understand it and address it?
- In what ways could climate migration reshape international relations and domestic politics? From a cross-national perspective, are there differences in how both home and host countries are addressing the issue of climate migration?