Climate change and human mobility

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Climate change and migration are often linked in political and public debates, with fears of millions of people on the move. Such alarmist scenarios not only overlook the everyday practices of mobility that people living in climate change affected areas are involved in and their implications for their livelihoods. They also present a distorted and one-sided perspective on the role of mobility – or immobility – for living and dealing with climate change under adverse circumstances.  

At this seminar, we discuss how to study climate change in a mobilities perspective and its implications. We ask, how do people cope through moving or staying? What does a mobilities perspective add to climate change research? And what do we see and what may we miss when applying such a perspective? 

Speakers
Dr Ingrid Boas, Environmental Policy Group, Wageningen University
Dr Francis Jarawura, SD Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies, Wa, Ghana
Dr Lothar Smith, Geography, Radboud University
Nauja Kleist, Senior Researcher, DIIS

Programme
14.00–14.10     Welcome, Nauja Kleist
14.10–14.30     Climate Mobilities: Migration, im/mobilities and mobility regimes in a changing environment, Ingrid Boas
14.30–14.50     Gold Rush: Climate change and diversifying spaces of migration in the Savannah of Ghana, Francis Jarawura
14.50–15.10     Climate change and human mobility as a research topic in social sciences – some considerations, Lothar Smith
15.10–15.50     Q&A, Nauja Kleist as chair
15.50–16.30     Reception

Recorded on Tuesday 24 May 2022, 14.00-16.30, DIIS ∙ Danish Institute for International Studies, Auditorium