8:30 AM – 10:00 AM | Session 9: Plenary
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10:30 AM – 12:00 PM | Concurrent Sessions
- Courtney Wald-Wittkop, Manager, Blue Acres Program, NJ DEP (session chair)
Climate mobility in Europe? Reviewing the evidence
- Michele Dalla Fontana, Postdoctoral Marie Curie Fellow at the Environmental Policy Group, Wageningen University, the Netherlands (presenting)
- Ingrid Boas, Environmental Policy Group, Wageningen University
The efficiency of setback zones and retreat in reducing future urban exposure in Europe’s coastal lowlands
- Claudia Wolff, Postdoctoral Researcher, Coastal Risks and Sea-Level Rise Research Group, Geography Department of Kiel University (presenting)
- Athanasios T. Vafeidis, Kiel University
- Hedda Bonatz, Kiel University
Practitioner perspectives on accommodation and retreat in response to climate change in the Netherlands
- Carolien Kraan, PhD candidate, University of Miami (presenting)
- Marjolijn Haasnoot, Senior Researcher and Associate Professor, Deltares & Utrecht University
- Katharine J. Mach, Professor, University of Miami
Procedural justice in climate adaptation: assessing state-led (in)voluntary land use change and relocations in The Dutch Delta
- Lieke Brackel, PhD candidate, Delft University of Technology
Barriers to housing mobility: A critical look at Uniform Relocation Act in NYC
- Hugo Sarmiento, Assistant Professor, Columbia GSAPP (presenting)
- Deborah Helaine Morris, Adjunct Professor, Columbia University
Co-producing adaptation to flooding in urban communities: A case study of Rockaway peninsula in New York City
- Malgosia Madajewicz (presenting)
- Philip Orton, Research Associate Professor, Stevens Institute of Technology
- Ana Fisyak, Community Engagement Manager, Equinor
- Michaela Labriole, Director of Strategic Education Initiatives, New York Hall of Science
- Judith Hutton, Coordinator of Strategic Education Initiatives, New York Hall of Science
- Judah Asimov, NYC Economic Development Corporation
- Jeanne Dupont, Executive Director, Rockaway Initiative for Sustainability and Equity
A Senses of Justice and Contextual Equity Approach to Inform Land Restoration following Buyouts in Edgemere’s Floodplain
- Veronica Olivotto, PhD Candidate of Public and Urban Policy, The New School
Towards A More Community-Driven Conversation About Risk and Relocation
- Paul Gallay, Director, the Columbia Center for Sustainable Urban Development's Resilient Coastal Communities Program
Rehousing the Displaced: A Framework for New York City to Accommodate Renters Leaving the Floodplain
- Alex Miller, MS in Sustainable Environmental Systems, Pratt Institute School of Architecture
Social Structures Connected to Multiple Social Categories Can Cause a Differentiated Impact of Environmental Change on Perceived Habitability
- Simon Merschroth, University of Vienna (presenting)
- Jan-Niklas Janoth, University of Vienna
- Harald Sterly, University of Vienna
- Patrick Sakdapolrak, University of Vienna
- Mumuni Abu, Senior Researcher at the Regional Institute of Population Studies, University of Ghana
Habitability to climate change beyond the point of no-return: co-designing adaptation plans and preparing for loss and damage
- Ariadna Anisimov, Postdoctoral researcher, University of Antwerp (presenting)
- Alexandre K. Magnan, Senior Research Fellow on vulnerability and adaptation to climate change, Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations
Shifting the boundaries of habitable spaces? The interplay of migration and socio-cultural dimensions for constituting locally perceived habitability in a context of environmental change in Northern Ghana
- Jan Niklas Janoth, University of Vienna (presenting)
- Patrick Sakdapolrak, University of Vienna
- Harald Sterly, University of Vienna
- Simon Merschroth, University of Vienna
- Mumuni Abu, University of Ghana
Migration and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change: A Right to Livability Going Beyond Loss and Damage
- Helene Benveniste, Postdoctoral Environmental Fellow, Harvard University (presenting)
- Simona Capisani, Durham University
Representing Retreat: How maps shape expert conceptions of habitability in regional climate change adaptation planning in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta
- Lizzie Yarina, PhD Candidate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Lunch & Session 11: Book Reading: Charleston: Race, Water, and the Coming Storm
- Susan Crawford, John A. Reilly Clinical Professor of Law, Harvard University
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM | Concurrent Sessions
Consideration of Managed Retreat in Queensland Coastal Hazard Adaptation Strategies
- Aysin Dedekorkut-Howes, Senior Lecturer of Urban and Environmental Planning at the Griffith School of Engineering and Built Environment (presenting)
- Caitlyn Christie, Griffith University
- Kate McGuire, Griffith University
Planned Community Relocations in Fiji: What Lessons Could Apply to the United States
- Barrett Ristroph, Ristroph Law, Planning, and Research
Adaptation Capacity Reflects and Reinforces Intermunicipal Inequality
- Jon Nelson, Assistant Professor in Residence, Rhode Island School of Design
44 Feet: Vulnerabilities, opportunities, and strategies for managing risk from sea-level rise to Humboldt Bay’s spent nuclear fuel site
- Alexander Brown, Graduate Research Assistant and Master’s Candidate, Cal Poly Humboldt (presenting)
- Jennifer Marlow, Assistant Professor of Environmental Law, Cal Poly Humboldt; founder of the 44 Feet Project
Practitioner Perspectives on Climate Mobility in South Florida
- Katharine Mach, Professor, University of Miami (presenting)
- Jennifer Niemann, Research Analyst at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science
- Rosalind Donald, Assistant Professor, American University
- Nadia Seeteram, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia Climate School
- A.R. Siders, Director, Climate Change Science & Policy Hub, University of Delaware
- Xavier I. Cortada, Artist and Professor of Practice, University of Miami
- Alex Nyburg, Department of Biology, University of Miami
- Jessica Owley, Professor of Law, University of Miami
- Adam Roberti, Executive Director, Xavier Cortada Foundation
- Ian A. Wright, Department of Economics, University of Miami
Addressing climate-related human mobility through NDCs and NAPs: State of play, best practices, and the way forward
- Ann-Christine Link, PhD student and instructor, UNU-EHS
- Haley Gentry, Senior Research Fellow, Tulane Institute on Water Resources Law & Policy
- Patrick Marchman, Principal / Associate Director, Climate and Sustainability, KM Sustainability/InnSure
- Liz Russell, Louisiana State Director, Environmental Defense Fund
- Hannah Teicher, Harvard Graduate School of Design
- Jessica Mederson, Partner, Stafford Rosenbaum LLP
- Carolyn Kousky, Associate Vice President for Economics and Policy, Environmental Defense Fund
- Calandra Cruickshank, Founder and CEO, StateBook International
- Monika Serrano, Turner Construction (moderator)
Developing a Buyout Program in New York City
- Tyler Taba, Senior Manager for Climate Policy, Waterfront Alliance
Managed Retreat and Relocation: Evaluating the Relocation of Homeowners in the New York Rising Buyout and Acquisition Programs
- Peter Mattingly, Research Program Manager, NYS Office of Resilient Homes and Communities (ORHC) (Presenting)
- Alex Pennington, Director of Research and Strategic Analysis, NYS Office of Resilient Homes and Communities
Shaping the landscape of risk: federal transfers for floodplain interventions
- Laura Geronimo, PhD Candidate, Rutgers University Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
Cooperative Strategies for Just and Ecological Adaptation to Flooding in New York City
- Deborah Carlin, Assistant Researcher, Cornell University (presenting)
- Julia Spande, Research Assistant, Cornell University
- Josh Rotbert, Research Assistant, Cornell University
- Linda Shi, Assistant Professor, Cornell University
- Kate Boicourt, Director of NY-NJ Coasts and Watersheds, Environmental Defense Fund
A multi-hazard climate displacement compounding index for NYC
- Marco Tedesco, Lamont Research Professor, Columbia University
Session Chair: Alex de Sherbinin, Senior Research Scientist and Deputy Director, CIESIN, Columbia Climate School
Conceptualising habitability in a connected, unequal and changing world
- Harald Sterly, Senior Scientist University of Vienna
Habitability
- David Wrathall, Associate Professor, University of Oregon
How to combine top-down habitability modeling with bottom-up social science research
- Alex de Sherbinin, Senior Research Scientist and Deputy Director, CIESIN, Columbia Climate School
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM | Concurrent Sessions
Managed Retreat in Hawaii’s Statewide Sea Level Rise Exposure Area: Planning and Policy Progress and Challenges
- Bradley Romine, Coastal Management and Resilience Specialist, University of Hawaii Sea Grant College Program, Pacific Islands Climate Adaptation Science Center (presenting)
- Charles (Chip) Fletcher, Interim Dean, Director of the Climate Resilience Collaborative, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
- Colin Lee, Esq., Climate Change and Resiliency Policy Analyst, University of Hawaiʻi Climate Resilience Collaborative
- Juliette Budge, Operations Project Manager, Climate Resilience Collaborative, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
- Amy Wirts, Coastal Lands Program Coordinator, University of Hawaii Sea Grant College Program
- Leah Laramee, Hawai‘i Climate Change Mitigation & Adaptation Coordinator, State of Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources
Costs and Tradeoffs of Coastal Retreat in Response to Sea Level Rise: A Case Study of the North Shore of O‘ahu, Hawai‘i
- Makena Coffman, Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, Director for the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Institute for Sustainability and Resilience (presenting)
- Rachael Han, Climate Impacts Research Specialist. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Institute for Sustainability and Resilience
- Conrad Newfield, Research Assistant, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Institute for Sustainability and Resilience
- Alice Terry, Research Assistant, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Institute for Sustainability and Resilience
- Kammie Tavares, Research Assistant, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Institute for Sustainability and Resilience
- Renee Setter, Research Assistant, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Institute for Sustainability and Resilience
- Nori Tarui, Professor, Economics, Research Fellow, University of Hawai‘i Economic Research
Proactive Community Collaboration to Address Coastal Erosion Hazards and Increase Resiliency on the North Shore of Oʻahu
- Lauren Blickley, Hawaii Regional Manager, Surfrider Foundation (presenting)
- Dolan Eversole, Coastal Management Specialist, University of Hawaiʻi Sea Grant College Program
- Bradley Romine, Coastal Resilience Extension Specialist, University of Hawaiʻi Sea Grant
- Stefanie Sekich, Sr. Manager Coasts and Climate Initiative, Surfrider Foundation
The Public Trust Doctrine and Managed Retreat in Hawaiʻi
- Colin A. Lee, Esq., Climate Change and Resiliency Policy Analyst, University of Hawaiʻi Climate Resilience Collaborative
Hawaii Land Acquisition Funds to Facilitate Managed Retreat
- Dolan Eversole, Coastal Management Specialist, University of Hawaii Sea Grant College Program
- Haley Gentry, Senior Research Fellow, Tulane Institute on Water Resources Law & Policy
- Patrick Marchman, Principal / Associate Director, Climate and Sustainability, KM Sustainability/InnSure
- Liz Russell, Louisiana State Director, Environmental Defense Fund
- Hannah Teicher, Harvard Graduate School of Design
- Jessica Mederson, Partner, Stafford Rosenbaum LLP
- Carolyn Kousky, Associate Vice President for Economics and Policy, Environmental Defense Fund
- Monika Serrano, Turner Construction (moderator)
Modeling migration out of Central America and West Africa
- Fabien Cottier, Columbia University (presenting)
- Brian Katz, Oregon State University
- Ángel Muñoz, Barcelona Supercomputing Center
- Carmen Gonzalez Romero, Barcelona Supercomputing Center
- Michael Puma, Columbia University
- Jennifer A. Nakamura, Columbia University
- Richard Seager, Columbia University
- Alex de Sherbinin, Columbia University
- David Wrathall, Oregon State University
Livelihoods on the Move: Towards fine-scale climate mobility modelling in India
- RJ van Duijne, Postdoc, CIESIN, Columbia Climate School
Leveraging CHC-CMIP6 High-Resolution Climate Projections for Anticipating Future Human Mobility and Habitability Worldwide
- Cascade Tuholske, Assistant Professor, Montana State University (presenting)
- Emily Williams, UCSB
- Chris Funk, UCSB
- Pete Peterson
Immersive Virtual Reality as a Communication Tool towards the Development of Floating Cities for Climate Adaptation
- Shengzhe Wang, Assistant Professor, University of Colorado Denver (presenting)
- Bing Han, Assistant Professor, University of Colorado Denver
The role of social capital in Natural disasters and hazards a management in the Sultanate of Oman
- Elnazir Ramadan, Associate Professor, Sultan Qaboos University (presenting)
- Suliman Zakaria, Sultan Qaboos University
(Non-)Managed retreat in Fairbourne, North Wales: Naming, Blaming and Claiming
- Alex Arnall, Associate Professor, University of Reading (presenting)
- Chris Hilson, Professor, School of Law, University of Reading
Questioning "community" engagement in planned relocation
- Erica Bower, PhD candidate, Stanford University (presenting)
- Betsy Priem, PhD Student in Sociology, University of Chicago
- Rachel Harrington-Abrams, PhD Student in Geography, Kings College London
Adaptation by Relocation: Evaluating Public Responses to Government Buyout Programs
- Sara Constantino, Assistant Professor, Psychology, Northeastern University
Impediments to Managed Retreat and Success of Community-based Relocation in the US
- David Casagrande, Professor, Lehigh University