报告题目：Climate Change Migration and Resettlement

报告人：Alex de Sherbinin教授  美国哥伦比亚大学

报告时间：2015年12月9日（周三）上午9:30

报告地点：地理资源所2321会议室

主 持 人：刘彦随  研究员

报告人简介：

Alex de Sherbinin is the associate director for science applications at the Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) at Columbia University. A geographer whose research interests focus on the human aspects of environmental change at local, national, and global scales. He also serves as deputy manager of the NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC); co-Coordinator of the Population-Environment Research Network (PERN); chair of the CODATA Global Roads Data Development Task Group; and co-author of the bi-annual Environmental Performance Index (EPI). Prior to joining CIESIN, he served as a program officer with the Social Policy Program of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Gland, Switzerland, and a population geographer at the Population Reference Bureau (PRB), Washington, DC. He was also a Peace Corps volunteer in Mauritania, West Africa. He has published more than 80 peer-reviewed papers on Science, Nature Climate Change, Global Environmental Change and other high impact factor journals with a range of topics, including population dynamics and the environment; climate vulnerability mapping; urban climate vulnerability and sustainability; climate change and migration; environmental indicators; and remote sensing applications for environmental treaties.

讲座内容简介：

Climate change and variability are having significant impacts on human societies, especially in rural regions of the developing world.  It is now widely recognized that in situations where in situ adaptation is not possible, that migration or assisted relocation (also known as resettlement) may be required. This presentation draws on the author’s contributions to a number of projects, including climate change hotspots mapping for the US Agency for International Development and UNEP, mapping for reports by the United Nations and CARE on climate loss & damage and migration, migration modeling for the UK Foresight Project on environmental migration, and Rockefeller Foundation funded policy research on climate change resettlement. The research and mapping draw on case studies from around the world, including China.