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Climate Change, Migration and Security
14:00, 6 Feb 2008RUSI, Whitehall, London, SW1A 2ET
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About the event:
RUSI’s Climate Change & Security Programme welcomed Dr. Robert McLeman to discuss ‘Climate Change, Migration and Security’, the second in our series of lectures on the security dimensions of climate change.
In this presentation, Dr. McLeman analysed climate change, migration and security as processes nested within a larger set of interconnected environmental and human socio-political systems. He identified windows for intervention and moderation of climate-migration dynamics that may lead to security concerns, drawing upon examples of post 9/11 fears of terrorist migration, migration-related conflicts in dryland Africa and potential climate-related migrations in South Asia.
Dr. Robert McLeman is an assistant professor of geography at the University of Ottawa. His research investigates how human well-being is affected by environmental conditions and change, and places a special emphasis on generating information and advice for public policy makers. A former diplomat, he has lived and worked in cities and regions representing a range of natural environments, at varying levels of economic development.
Dr. McLeman's current research projects include the development of models for identifying hotspots of climate-related migration; examining the impacts of demographic and social change on the capacity of communities to adapt to environmental stresses; and identifying institutional barriers to community adaptation to future environmental and socio-economic uncertainty.
Dr. McLeman’s ongoing research interests also include the relationships between environmental stresses (such as deforestation, soil degradation and drought), migration and conflict in developing regions, and the development of a broader theory of how climate change affects human migration behaviour.
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