Sunday, November 25, 2012

Climate & Kangaroos

After a year of sick leave, I'm thrilled to be returning to the world of research on population and climate change. This is scholarship with critical meaning for the planet.

 I landed yesterday in Canberra, Australia for a seminar organized by the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population's Committee on Population and Climate Change.

The seminar examines the human dimensions of global change and I'm presenting my collaborative work on migration as a livelihood strategy in the face of environmental scarcity in rural South Africa.

I believe this meeting is important. The IPCC is working hard on better projecting emissions, better understanding drivers of climate change, and better considering adaptation and mitigation strategies.

All of these have demographic dimensions -- and all are being considered by leading scholars at this week's workshop.