Participants

Professor, Institute for Behavioral Studies, University of Colorado – Boulder
Expertise: environmental change & livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa; drought migration in Mexico.
Sample publications:

Hunter, L.M et al (2015) Environmental Dimensions of Migration. Annual Review of Sociology 41: 377-397

Hunter, L.M. et al (2014) Rural Outmigration, Natural Capital, and Livelihoods in South Africa. Population, Space and Place 20(5): 402–420

Hunter, L.M. et al (2013) Rainfall Variation and U.S. Migration from Rural Mexico. International Migration Review 47(3):874-909

Herzberg Professor and Director of the Institute for the Study of International Migration; Georgetown University
Expertise: US and international immigration and refugee policy & programs
Sample publications:

Martin, S.F. (2014). International Migration: Evolving Trends from the Early 20th Century to the Present. Cambridge University Press.

Martin, S.F. (2012) Environmental change and migration: legal and political frameworks. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 30: 1045-1060.

Martin, S.F. (2009) Climate Change, Migration and Governance. Global Governance 16(3): 397-414.

Senior Fellow, Institute for the Study of International Migration, Georgetown University
Expertise: politics of humanitarian action; role of civil society in protecting displaced populations
Sample publications:

Ferris, E., & Petz, D. (2013). In the neighborhood: the growing role of regional organizations in disaster risk management. Brookings Institution, London School of Economics, Project on Internal Displacement.

Ferris, E. (2012) Protection and Planned Relocations in the Context of Climate Change. UNHCR

Ferris, E. (2011) The Politics of Protection: The limits of humanitarian action. Brookings Institution Press

Ferris, E. (2015) On Climate Change, Migration and Policy. Center for Migration Studies, New York, 20 July 2015.

Associate Professor, Geography & Environmental Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University
Expertise: climate and international migration & displacement; drought migration; international environmental migration to Canada
Sample publications:

McLeman, R. et al (eds)(2015). Environmental Migration and Social Inequality, Springer.

McLeman, R. (2014). Climate and human migration: Past experiences, future challenges. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

McLeman, R. (2013). Developments in modelling of climate change-related migration. Climatic Change, 117(3), 599–611.

Associate Professor, Population Studies and Training Center, Brown University
Expertise: post-Katrina migration and population change in New Orleans; population impacts of climate change
Sample publications:

Fussell, E. (2015) The Long-Term Recovery of New Orleans’ Population After Hurricane Katrina. American Behavioral Scientist 59(10): 1231-1245.

Fussell, E. et al (2014) Measuring the environmental dimensions of human migration: The demographer's toolkit. Global Environmental Change 28:182–191

Fussell, E. et al (2014) Recovery migration to the City of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina: a migration systems approach. Population & Environment 35(3): 305-322

Professor, Development Sociology, Cornell University
Expertise: international labor migration and family dynamics in Philippines and SE Asia
Sample publications:

Williams, L. & Guest, M. (eds)(2012) Demographic Change in Southeast Asia: Recent Histories and Future Directions. Cornell University Press.

Arguillas, M. & Williams, L. (2010) The Impact of Parents’ Overseas Employment on Educational Outcomes of Filipino Children. International Migration Review, 44(2): 300-319.

Eloundou-Enyegue, P. & Williams, L. (2006) Family Size and Schooling in sub- Saharan African Settings: A Reexamination. Demography 43(1): 25-52.

Assistant Professor, Sociology, University of Minnesota & Minnesota Population Center
Expertise: quantitative modeling of migration systems; causes, characteristics and consequences of environmental migration within US and internationally
Sample publications:

DeWaard, Jack, Katherine J. Curtis, and Elizabeth Fussell. 2015 “Population Recovery in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina: Exploring the Potential Role of Stage Migration in Migration Systems.” Population and Environment, DOI 10.1007/s11111-015-0250-7.

Curtis, Katherine J., Elizabeth Fussell, and Jack DeWaard. 2015. “Recovery Migration after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: Spatial Concentration and Intensification in the Migration System.” Demography, 52(4), 1269-1293.

DeWaard, Jack. 2015. “Beyond Group-Threat: Temporal Dynamics of International Migration and Linkages to Anti-Foreigner Sentiment.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 41(7), 1041-1067.

DeWaard, Jack. 2013. “Compositional and Temporal Dynamics of International Migration in the EU/EFTA: A New Metric for Assessing Countries' Immigration and Integration Policies.” International Migration Review, 47(2), 249-295.

Associate Professor, Geography, University of Ottawa
Expertise: Social inequality, transnationalism & citizenship; environmental influences on international migration to Canada
Sample publications:

Veronis, L. & McLeman, R. (2014) Environmental influences on African migration to Canada: focus group findings from Ottawa-Gatineau. Population and Environment 36(2): 234-251.

Obokata, R., Veronis, L. & McLeman, R. (2014) Empirical research on international environmental migration: a systematic review. Population & Environment 36(1): 111-135.

Mezdour, A. & Veronis, L. (2012) Est-ce que l’environnement a une influence sur la migration internationale au Canada? Note de recherche sur le cas de la diaspora Haïtienne à Ottawa-Gatineau. Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 37(74): 207-217.

Director of the International Migration Research Centre, Balsillie School of International Affairs, and Associate Professor, Wilfrid Laurier University
Expertise: labour migration; gender and migration; bilateral labour mobility agreements; remittances and development; migrants rights and health
Sample publications:
Hennebry, J. L. (2014). Transnational Precarity: Women's Migration Work and Mexican Seasonal Agricultural Migration. International Journal of Sociology, 44(3), 42-59.

Walton-Roberts, M. & Hennebry, J. (eds)(2014) Territoriality and Migration Management in the E.U. Neighbourhood: Spilling over the Wall. Springer International Migration Series.

Hennebry, J. (2014) Falling Through the Cracks: Migrant Workers and the Global Social Protection Floor Initiative. Global Social Policy 14(3): 369-388

Associate Dean, School of International Policy and Governance, Balsillie School of International Affairs
Expertise: gender and international migration of students, professionals, particularly from India
Sample publications:

R. Howard-Hassmann, & Walton-Roberts, M. (eds)(2015) The Human Right to Citizenship: A Slippery Concept, University of Pennsylvania Press.

Walton-Roberts, M. (2015) The international migration of health professionals and the marketization and privatization of health education in India. Social Science and Medicine 124: 374-382.

Walton-Roberts, M. & Hennebry, J. (eds)(2014) Territoriality and Migration Management in the E.U. Neighbourhood: Spilling over the Wall. Springer International Migration Series.

Associate Professor, Geography & Environmental Management, University of Waterloo & Interdisciplinary Centre for Climate Change
Expertise: community-based assessment of vulnerability and adaptation to climate change
Sample publications:

Wandel, J. et al. (2011) Science and Indigenous Knowledge in Resource Management in the Canadian Arctic. In, Integrating Science and Policy: Vulnerability and Resilience in Global Environmental Change. Earthscan, 291-306.

Wandel, J. & Marchildon, G. (2010) Institutional Fit and Interplay in a Dryland Agricultural Social-Ecological System in Alberta, Canada. In, Adaptive Capacity and Environmental Governance. Springer, 179-198.

University Professor Emeritus, University of Guelph
Expertise: vulnerability and adaptations of communities and socio-economic systems to global environmental change
Sample publications:

McCubbin, S., Smit, B., & Pearce, T. (2015) Where does climate fit? Vulnerability to climate change in the context of multiple stressors in Funafuti, Tuvalu. Global Environmental Change 30 : 43-55.

Smit, B., et al (lead authors) (2007). Assessment of adaptation practices, options, constraints and capacity. Chapter 17, IPCC Third Assessment Report.

Smit, B. & Wandel, J. (2006). Adaptation, adaptive capacity and vulnerability. Global Environmental Change, 16(3): 282-292

Professor, Political Science, University of Guelph
Expertise: international development, urbanization, land and resource governance and climate change in South and Southeast Asia
Sample publications:

Johnson, C. (2013). New Climate Alliances. Nature – Climate Change 3: 537-38.

Johnson, C. et al (2013) Social Protection and Climate Change: Emerging Issues for Research, Policy and Practice. Development Policy Review 31 (S2): o2-o18

Johnson, C. (2012) Governing climate displacement: The ethics and politics of human resettlement. Environmental Politics 21(2): 308-28

CIGI Chair in the Political Economy of Climate Change, Balsillie School of International Affairs
Expertise: geopolitical and international security dimensions of environmental change
Sample publications:

Dalby, S. & O'Lear, S. (eds)(2015). Reframing Climate Change: Constructing ecological geopolitics. Routledge.

Dalby, S. (2015) Climate Geopolitics: Securing the Global Economy. International Politics 52(4): 426-444.

Dalby, S. (2015) Geoengineering: The Next Era of Geopolitics?” Geography Compass 9(4): 190-201.

Professor, Geography & Environmental Studies, Cold Regions Research Centre, Wilfrid Laurier University
Expertise: hydrology, geomorphology and aquatic biogeochemistry of northern environments; physical science of climate change
Sample publications:

Rees, A., English, M., et al. (2014) Observations of late winter Canadian tundra snow cover properties. Hydrological Processes 28(12): 3962–3977.

Macrae, M., English, M. et al (2007) Intra-annual variability in the contribution of tile drains to basin discharge and phosphorus export in a first-order agricultural catchment. Agricultural Water Management 92(3): 171–182.

Rees, A., Derksen, C., English, M. et al (2006) Uncertainty in snow mass retrievals from satellite passive microwave data in lake-rich high-latitude environments. Hydrological Processes 20(4): 1019–1022