8:30 AM – 10:00 AM | Concurrent Sessions
Modelling human displacement in Pakistan flood 2022: An assessment of opportunities and limitations
- Pui Man Kam, PhD candidate, Weather and Climate Risks, ETH Zurich (presenting)
- Steffen Lohrey, TU Berlin
- Tabea Cache, University of Lausanne
- Bianca Biess, ETH Zurich
- Sabrina Di Vincenzo, Politecnico di Milano
- Radley M. Horton, Columbia University
- Lisa Thalheimer, United Nations University
Racing against floods: novel estimates of vehicle flood exposure and vehicle flood damages in the United States
- Steven Koller, PhD candidate, Environmental Science and Policy, University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science
Demographic exposure to extreme heat and flooding
- Andrew Zimmer, Postdoctoral Researchers, Montana State University (presenting)
- Cascade Tuholske, Assistant Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, Montana State University
- Nina Brooks, Assistant Professor, School of Public Policy, University of Connecticut
- Carolynne Hultquist, Lecturer, School of Earth and Environment, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
Missed opportunities: Barriers to managed retreat in Sumas Prairie, BC, following the 2021 floods
- Felicia Watterodt, Master of Environmental Studies candidate, University of Waterloo (presenting)
- Brent Doberstein, Associate Professor, University of Waterloo
Who Benefits from Flood Adaptation?– Evidence from US wide time series data
- Lidia Cano, PhD Candidate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (presenting)
- ChangHoon Hahn, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Princeton University
Relating social, ecological, and technological vulnerability to future flood exposure at two spatial scales in four U.S. cities
- Jason Sauer, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Portland State University (presenting)
- Arun Pallathadka, Portland State University
- Heejun Chang, Portland State University
- David Iwaniec. Portland State University
- Elizabeth M. Cook, Barnard College
- Gregory C. Post, Portland State University
- Idowu Ajibade, Portland State University
- Marta Berbés-Blázquez, University of Waterloo
- Nancy B. Grimm, Arizona State University
Out of Africa, Few Green Bonds: African Sovereigns, Climate Action and International Finance
- Harry Verhoeven, Columbia University (presenting)
- Gautam Jain, Columbia University
Exploring price effects of sea level rise exposure across race and income: evidence from property sales in the southeastern United States
- Steven Koller, Environmental Science and Policy PhD Candidate, University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science
Measuring the Impact of Managed Retreat
- Mark Rhoads, MBA Candidate, Bard College
- Sarah Haworth, MBA Candidate, Bard College
- Maria He, MBA Candidate, Bard College
- Shahbaz Soofi, MBA/MS Candidate, Bard College
- Nicole Jean Christian, Empire State Fellow, NYS Department of State
- Jordan Koster, Excelsior Service Fellow, NYS Department of State
- Carolyn Fraioli, Coastal Resources Specialist, NYS Department of State
Who Pays? Emerging possibilities for resourcing managed retreat
- Michael Howes, Associate Professor, Griffith University (presenting)
- Andrew Buckwell, Griffith University
- Justine Bell-James, University of Queensland
- Margaret Cook, Griffith University
- Aysin Dedekorkut-Howes, Griffith University
- Ed Morgan, Griffith University
- Johanna Nalau, Griffith University
Managed retreat due to natural hazards: A decision support framework based on case history analysis in Switzerland
- Flurina Dobler, Master of Science candidate, University of Zurich (presenting)
- Christian Huggel, University of Zurich
- Samuel Weber, WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research, SLF Davos Switzerland & Climate Change, Extremes and Natural Hazards in Alpine Regions Research Center CERC
How Does Housing Recovery and Relocation Process Disconnect or Reconnect in Neighborhoods? A Case Study of Relocation Program and Disaster Public Housing in a Tsunami Impacted City in Japan
- Kensuke Otsuyama, Project Lecturer, The University of Tokyo
Stability and change in U.S. migrations systems after disasters
- Elizabeth Fussell, Professor of Population Studies and Environment and Society, Brown University; Editor-in-Chief, Population & Environment (presenting)
- Kathryn McConnell, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Brown University
- Jack DeWaard, Associate Professor, University of Minnesota and Population Council
- Katherine Curtis, Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
How disaster recovery decision-making unfolds: Investigating retreat and rebuild options for post disaster recovery in Merritt, British Columbia after the 2021 British Columbia floods
- Shaieree Cottar, PhD candidate, University of Waterloo
Building a "wildfire managed retreat" research agenda
- Kathryn McConnell, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Brown University (presenting)
- Liz Koslov, Assistant Professor, University of California Los Angeles Department of Urban Planning and Institute of the Environment and Sustainability
Managed retreat following the 2010 eruption of Mt. Merapi, Indonesia: managing tradeoffs between volcanic hazard and livelihoods risks
- Brent Doberstein, Associate Professor, University of Waterloo
Assessing climate risk to habitability in atoll islands and implications for adaptation
- Alexandre K. Magnan, Senior Research fellow, IDDRI (presenting)
- Virginie K.E. Duvat, La Rochelle University-CNRS
- Chris Perry, University of Exeter
- Tom Spencer, University of Cambridge
- Johann D. Bell, University of Wollongong and Conservation International
- Colette C.C. Wabnitz, University of British Columbia and Center for Ocean Solutions
- Arthur P. Webb, United Nations Development Programme
- Ian White, Australian National University
- Kathleen L. McInnes, CSIRO
- Jean-Pierre Gattuso, Sorbonne Université and CNRS
- Nicholas A. J. Graham, Lancaster University
- Patrick D. Nunn, University of the Sunshine Coast
- Gonéri Le Cozannet, French Geological Survey
Assessing the feasibility and relevance of internal relocation in atoll settings: application to Rangiroa Atoll, French Polynesia
- Virginie Duvat, Professor of Coastal Geography, UMR LIENSs 7266, La Rochelle University-CNRS (presenting)
- Alexandre K. Magnan, Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations
- Lydie Goldner-Gianella, Laboratory of Physical Geography, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
- Delphine Grancher, Laboratory of Physical Geography, CNRS
- Stéphane Costa, Normandie Univ, Unicaen, CNRS, LETG
- Olivier Maquaire, Normandie Univ, Unicaen, CNRS, LETG
- Gonéri Le Cozannet, DRP R3C, BRGM
- Lucile Stahl, UMR LIENSs 7266, La Rochelle University-CNRS
- Natacha Volto, eng., UMR LIENSs 7266, La Rochelle University-CNRS
- Cécilia Pignon-Mussaud, eng., UMR LIENSs 7266, La Rochelle University-CNRS
Re-emplacement: the active remaking of climate-impacted place
- Carol Farbotko, Griffith University (presenting)
- Taukiei Kitara, Independent Researcher, Tuvaluan Indigenous knowledge holder
Enabling conditions for planned relocation in Fiji
- Celia McMichael, University of Melbourne
Regeneration Amidst Relocation: Gendered Dimensions of Fiji's Planned Relocation
- Betty Barkha, Monash University
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM | Concurrent Sessions
Session chair: Alan Cohn, Managing Director, Integrated Water Management, NYC DEP
Session Chairs: Lena Reimann, Postdoctoral Researcher, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Lars Tierolf, PhD Researcher, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Wouter Botzen, Professor, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Jeroen Aerts, Professor, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Drivers of migration behavior under increased flood risk from sea-level rise: A cross-national study
- Sem Duijndam, PhD candidate, VU University Amsterdam
DYNAMO-M: A global agent-based model of adaptation and migration decisions in face of sea level rise
- Lars Tierolf, PhD candidate, Institute for Environmental Studies, VU University
Implications of global vs. local data for understanding populations at risk of seaward hazards and adaptation planning
- Deborah Balk, Professor, CUNY Institute for Demographic Research
Using agent-based modelling to explore pre-inundation impacts of sea-level rise in Bangladesh delta
- Roland Smith, Leverhulme Trust Doctoral Scholar at the University of East Anglia (UEA) and Tyndall Centre for Climate Change (presenting)
- Robert J. Nicholls, School of Environmental Sciences and Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of East Anglia (UEA)
- Mark G. L. Tebboth, School of International Development and Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of East Anglia (UEA)
- Avidan Kent, School of Law, University of East Anglia (UEA) and Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
Data and communication challenges in co-producing knowledge for migration and adaptation under uncertain futures
- Andrew Bell, Assistant Professor, Earth and Environment, Boston University (presenting)
- Nic Choquette-Levy, Postdoctoral Researcher, Boston University
- Fabien Cottier, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Center for International Earth Science Information Network, Columbia Climate School
- Alex de Sherbinin, Senior Research Scientist and Deputy Director, CIESIN, Columbia Climate School
Forced coastal migration due to 21st century sea-level rise induced land loss under cost-benefit optimal coastal protection
- Daniel Lincke, Global Climate Forum, Germany (presenting)
- Jochen Hinkel, Division of Resource Economics, Albrecht Daniel Thaer-Institute and Berlin Workshop in Institutional Analysis of Social-Ecological Systems (WINS), Humboldt-University
- A.R. Siders, Director, Climate Change Science & Policy Hub, University of Delaware [session chair]
- Miyuki Hino, Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
- Katharine Mach, Professor, University of Miami [moderator]
- Additional speakers TBA
Analysis of Three Forms of Relocation in Mountain Settlements World-wide
- Ben Orlove, Professor, Columbia University (presenting)
- Christian Huggel, Professor, Department of Geography, University of Zurich
- Veruska Muccione, Senior Scientist, Department of Geography, University of Zurich
Equity and risk tradeoffs of managed retreat from volcanic hazard: Mt. Merapi, Indonesia
- Brent Doberstein, Associate Professor, University of Waterloo Department of Geography and Environmental Management (presenting)
- Beth Palmer, Research Associate, University of Waterloo Department of Geography and Environmental Management
Knowledge and implementation gaps for inclusive and equitable relocation practice as assessed by researchers and practitioners
- David Durand-Delacre, Senior Researcher, UNU-EHS
The role of relocation in the context of limits of adaptation to climate change - A case study in the Salkantay catchment in the Peruvian Andes
- Isabel Hagen, PhD candidate, University of Zurich (presenting)
- Christian Huggel, University of Zurich
- Sanne Schnyder, University of Zurich
- Inés Yanac León, Wayintsik
- Sirkku Juhola, University of Helsinki
- Veruska Muccione, University of Zurich
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM | Concurrent Sessions
- Amy Chester, Managing Director, Rebuild By Design (session co-chair)
- Marco Tedesco, Lamont Research Professor, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia Climate School (session co-chair)
On the Edge of Something Big - San Diego's $3 Billion Project to Relocate a Railroad off Coastal Bluffs
- Laura Walsh, California Policy Manager, Surfrider Foundation
Going Off the Rails with Climate Change: How Railroad Closures Along California’s Coast are Impacting Equity, Land Management, the Economy, and Recreation—and the Solutions at the End of the Tunnel
- Stefanie Sekich, Sr. Manager, Coasts and Climate Initiative, Surfrider Foundation (presenting)
- Laura Walsh, California Policy Manager, Surfrider Foundation
The Port Authority of NY & NJ’s Approach to Addressing Complex Infrastructure Interdependencies
- Josh DeFlorio, Chief, Resilience & Sustainability, Port Authority of NY & NJ
Considering Climigration in Transportation Infrastructure Investments in Receiving Communities
- Allie Reilly, Lead Consultant, Climate, Resilience, and Sustainability, WSP USA (presenting)
- Catherine Prince, Director, Climate, Resilience, and Sustainability, WSP USA
Co-adaptation- Pairing the Relocation of Plant and Animal Species with Human Resettlement
- Jared Enriquez, University at Albany, SUNY (presenting)
- Lijo Varghese, NY Department of Environmental Conservation
- Tyler Bobko, Student, University at Albany
Managed Retreat and Wetland Migration: Vulnerability Interactions Between Moving People and Wetlands
- Celina Balderas Guzman, Assistant Professor, University of Washington
Legal mechanisms for managed retreat of coastal wetlands: an Australian perspective
- Justine Bell-James, Associate Professor, University of Queensland
Strategic Retreat and Nature: Untapped Role for Conservation Organizations
- Alyssa Mann, Climate Resilience Project Director, The Nature Conservancy (presenting)
- Olivia Won, University of California Santa Cruz
- Piper Wallingford, The Nature Conservancy
- Walter Heady, The Nature Conservancy
The social dimensions of managed realignment of agricultural dykes and restoration of tidal wetlands on the Bay of Fundy coast
- Kate Sherren, Professor, Dalhousie University (presenting)
- Brandon Champagne, MA Student, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Saint Mary’s University
- Yan Chen, PhD candidate, School for Resource and Environmental Studies, Dalhousie University
- Lara Cornejo, Postdoctoral fellow, School for Resource and Environmental Studies, Dalhousie University
- Isabel Cotton, PhD candidate, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change, University of East Anglia
- Samantha Howard, PhD candidate, School for Resource and Environmental Studies, Dalhousie University
- Paria Movaghati Nashta, MES student, School for Resource and Environmental Studies, Dalhousie University
- Kara Pictou, Community-based Monitoring Coordinator, Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Confederacy of Mainland Mi’kmaq
- Emily Wells, MES student, School for Resource and Environmental Studies, Dalhousie University
- Danika van Proosdij, Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Saint Mary’s University
- Qiqi Zhao, PhD candidate, School of Geography and Ocean Science, Nanjing University
Atoll Habitability Thresholds
- Mark Stege, Maloelap Atoll Local Government (presenting)
- Michael B. Gerrard, Andrew Sabin Professor of Professional Practice and Director, Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, Columbia Law School
- Benjamin Orlove, Professor, School of International and Public Affairs and Senior Research Scientist, Columbia University
- Jon Barnett, Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow, School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Faculty of Science, The University of Melbourne
Using hyperlocal experiential data to amplify community voice in retreat, migration, and relocation decisions
- Julia Kumari Drapkin, CEO, ISeeChange (presenting)
- Derek Kauneckis, ISeeChange / The Desert Research Institute Senior Resilience Analyst and Services Lead / Associate Research Professor
Traditional Ecological Knowledge in targeting a culturally meaningful retreat in the Arctic
- Jaimlyn Sypniewski, PhD candidate, Oregon State University (presenting)
- Jamon Van Den Hoek, Associate Professor of Geography in the College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University
Anthropocene im-mobilities: exploring the materiality of ‘thick time.’
- Giovanna Gini, PhD candidate, Queen Mary University of London
Coastal Adaptation Pathways – The case of Folly Beach, South Carolina
- Tess Doeffinger, Postdoctoral researcher, University of Delaware