Participants
Panellists
Lori Hunter - Website
University of Colorado – Boulder
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
Susan Martin - Website
Georgetown University
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. (2009) Climate Change, Migration and Governance. Global Governance 16(3):
397-414.
Elizabeth Ferris - Website
Brookings Institution
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
Moderator
Robert McLeman - Website
Wilfrid Laurier University
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.
Workshop Participants
Elizabeth Fussell - Website
Brown University
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) Recovery migration to the City of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina: a
migration systems approach. Population & Environment 35(3): 305-322
Craig Johnson - Website
University of Guelph
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
Lindy Williams - Website
Cornell University
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.
Jack DeWaard - Website
University of Minnesota
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, J. et al (2015) Population recovery in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina: exploring
the potential role of stage migration in migration systems. Population & Environment. DOI
10.1007/s11111-015-0250-7.
DeWaard, J (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.
DeWaard, J. & Raymer, J. (2012) The temporal dynamics of international migration in Europe:
Recent trends. Demographic Research 26: 543-592
Luisa Veronis - Website
University of Ottawa
Associate Professor, Geography, University of Ottawa
Expertise: Social inequality, transnationalism & citizenship; environmental influences on
international migration to Canada
Sample publications:
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 OttawaGatineau. Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 37(74): 207-217.
Jenna Hennebry - Website
International Migration Research Centre
Director, International Migration Research Centre; Associate Professor, Communications
Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University
Expertise: migration policy and foreign worker programs; bilateral labour mobility agreements;
role of remittances in development
Sample publications:
Hennebry, et al. (2015) Bilateral Labour Migration Agreements, Development and Trade:
Complexity, Contradiction and Coherence. Report for the Global Knowledge Partnership on
Migration and Development (KNOMAD).
Hennebry, J. (2014) Falling Through the Cracks: Migrant Workers and the Global Social
Protection Floor Initiative. Global Social Policy 14(3): 369-388
Hennebry, J. & Preibisch, K. (2012) A Model for Managed Migration? Re-Examining Best
Practices in Canada’s Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program. International Migration, 50(s1),
e19-e40.
Margaret Walton-Roberts - Website
International Migration Research Centre
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.
Johanna Wandel - Website
Interdisciplinary Centre for Climate Change, University of Waterloo
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.
Michael English - Website
Cold Regions Research Centre, Wilfrid Laurier University
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
Simon Dalby - Website
Balsillie School of International Affairs
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.
Barry Smit - Website
University of Guelph
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