Dienstag, 11. Juli 2023, 09:00 - 18:00 iCal

ECMN 2023 conference

Towards a transdisciplinary understanding of migration and im/mobilities in the context of environmental and climate change

Department of Geography and Regional Research
Universitätsstr. 7, 1010 Wien

Konferenz

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Climate mobilities and migration have for a long time been a niche topic in research, policies and public debate; this has changed in the past years, as is indicated by the number of publications, conferences, and the visibility in high-level meetings such as COP and in news and media. Research methodologies are becoming refined and more specialized, and the number of researchers in the topic is quickly growing. This is resulting, among others, in the emergence of epistemic and research communities with limited connectedness between each other (e.g. quantitative modeling, economics, development research, critical social science, legal studies, cultural studies, etc.). At the same time, public and policy discourses would benefit from inputs by a stronger research community.

Given this background, we - environmental mobility researchers from the University of Vienna, Wageningen University, the Hugo Observatory, and the United Nations University - aim to build an open, transdisciplinary research network on climate mobility. The key objectives of this network are:

• to provide a forum and platform for exchange, the sharing of ideas and further advancing the field of environmental

• mobility research;

• to build opportunities for new collaborations, and the networking for young researchers;

• to support the structuring and formulation of further research agendas, and key directions to explore;

• to strengthen research-practice-policy linkages and increase the outreach in debates on climate mobility.

We envision the backbone of this network to be a yearly symposium organized by stakeholders of the network, bringing together the members of different research groups and communities.

The network is meant to be a bottom-up initiative, open to participation and to collaboration with other existing networks, and its further evolvement depends on the contribution and engagement of the network participants.

With the launch event, we want to bring together researchers from different disciplines, as well as policy advisors and practitioners. The event will foster the exchange between and across disciplinary boundaries and epistemic communities and get insights in emerging topics, approaches, and methods. It will serve to network and connect with others, identify options for research collaborations and support career opportunities. It will also enable the participants to shape the purpose, direction and form of this new network.

The event will thus consist of a variety of formats:

• keynote talks on the state of the art of important research communities (social research, modeling, policy science,legal research, practitioners, etc.);

• contributions from participants on their research and field of action (the exact form and duration of inputs is to

• be decided);

• interactive workshops on mapping the research landscape; on how to bring different approaches into fruitful conversation; on research gaps, hot topics, and future directions; and on the further activities of the network;

• social events for networking and community-building.

We aim to publish key contributions in a special issue.

We invite all relevant stakeholders working on the Migration Environment and Climate Change Nexus to this meeting.

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Veranstalter

Department of Geography and Regional Research

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Kontakt

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Patrick Sakdapolrak
Department of Geography and Regional Research
DW 48730
patrick.sakdapolrak@univie.ac.at

Erstellt am Montag, 10. Juli 2023, 14:26
Letzte Änderung am Montag, 31. Juli 2023, 09:12