Climate Change, Adaptation, and Migration

Speaker Series

Climate Change, Adaptation, and Migration

April 18, 2023
Duke Center for International Development
Co-sponsored by the Duke Center for International Development and the Center on Modernity in Transition.

Speakers

Sarah Bermeo

Sarah Bermeo

Duke University

Sarah Bermeo is Associate Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. She is the author of Targeted Development: Industrialized Country Strategy in a Globalizing World.

Robert McLeman

Robert McLeman

Wilfrid Laurier University

Robert McLeman is Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. He is the author of Climate and Human Migration: Past Experiences, Future Challenges.

Moderators

Daniel Duhart

Daniel Duhart

Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano

Daniel Duhart is a postdoctoral fellow at the Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano in Santiago, Chile. His research examines the discourse and practice of civilizational transition in Chile, and their resonances with alternative conceptions of intellectual life and civic society.

Kerilyn Schewel

Kerilyn Schewel

Senior Fellow, COMIT

Kerilyn Schewel is the Co-Director of the Duke Program on Climate-Related Migration and a Lecturing Fellow at the Duke Center for International Development. Her research examines the root causes of human migration and immobility, with a focus on themes of gender, youth, rural development, and climate change.

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