Migration and Climate Change

Working on, what I believe is, an important proposal outlining a research project on migration as a livelihood strategy in rural South Africa --

Does variation in precipitation and temperature shape patterns of outmigration?

We can learn about the social implications of climate change by examining patterns of the recent past.

Sociology & the Golden Gate

Just returned from the American Sociological Association meetings in San Francisco -- what a great city and what a great group of engaging scholars!

I would encourage anyone interested in Environmental Sociology to join the section's listserv:

To subscribe go to
http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=envirosoc&A=1

At the meeting:

Laura Patterson, Sociology graduate student at CU-Boulder, presented our collaborative research in South Africa on AIDS mortality and household food security.

I also acted as roundtable moderator for a great discussion with:

Research on community acceptance of wind energy
(Teelyn Mauney and Lenin Zhang, San Francis University)

Expanding Offshore Energy Production: Policy considerations
(Robert Gramling, Univ of Louisiana and William Freudenburg, UC-Santa Barbara)

A Tale of Two Sitings: Contentious Politics and Liquefied Natural gas Facilities in California
(Hilary Schaffer Boudet, Stanford University)