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SUMMARY:Climate\, mobility and migration\, Etienne Piguet / URBDEMO
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Etienne Piguet\, University of Neuchâtel\nLecture serie
 s in Urban Demography organized by the URBDEMO LAB EPFL-ENAC-IA\n\nThe Urb
 an Demography Lab at EPFL has the pleasure to invite you to a series of si
 x open conferences on population dynamics and urban change in Switzerland 
 and globally.\n\nLecture 2: “Climate\, mobility and migration : making s
 ense of a complicated nexus”\nPresenter: Prof. Etienne Piguet\, Universi
 ty of Neuchâtel\n\nAbstract: The impact of environmental change on human 
 mobilities and the way migration can act as a response to environmental ha
 zards are attracting an increasing attention from both policy-makers and r
 esearchers worldwide in the context of climate change. Yet\, knowledge in 
 this field remains limited and fragmented. Numbers of future “environmen
 tal refugees” are often forecasted without reliable methodologies and co
 ncepts such as “trapped populations” or “climate migrants” are dis
 cussed without proper definitions. This talk will provide an overview of t
 he environmental change migration nexus and investigate the key issues at 
 stake. The concepts and methods most adequate to address the complexities 
 of these phenomenon will also be questioned.\n\nShort biography: Etienne P
 iguet (Phd. /University of Lausanne/1998) is Professor at the Institute of
  geography of the University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland). He is vice-presi
 dent of the Swiss federal commission for migration (CFM/EKM). E. Piguet is
  specialized in migration studies with a focus on the migration/climate ch
 ange nexus. He has written extensively on issues of migration flows\, refu
 gees\, labour market integration of migrants\, discrimination\, statelessn
 ess\, etc.  He was Review editor for the Intergovernmental Panel on Clima
 te Change 5th assessment report (IPCC 2014) and has published numerous boo
 ks and papers on the topic in scientific journals including the Annals of 
 the American Association of Geographers\, Population Space and Place\, Nat
 ure (Climate change)\, Population and Development Review\, Journal of Refu
 gee Studies\, etc. In Dec. 2019\, he published a new book in French on asy
 lum issues (Asile et réfugiés – Repenser la protection – Presses poy
 techniques romandes). Full list of publications: https://scholar.google.ch
 /citations?user=vmz4RzEAAAAJ&hl=en\n\n 
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