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See Supports International Organization for Migration

Post published:1 October 2024
Post category:News

Sheryn See, currently MPhil student with our lab, is undertaking a 4-month placement as a Climate Displacement Specialist with the International Organization for Migration (IOM). Sheryn will be supporting the development of the Risk Index for Climate Displacement (RICD) - a risk index and predictive model that will improve quantification, understanding and forecasting of potential future challenges linked to climate change and migration, including climate-induced displacement. The RICD will help governments, communities, and partners to increase the resilience of populations most likely to be impacted by climate-induced displacement and work towards averting or addressing loss and damage.

New SEI Grant to Study Climate Change Displacement

Post published:4 December 2022
Post category:News

Dr Aaron Opdyke and Dr Susan Banki were awarded funding from the Sydney Environment Institute through its Collaborative Grants to study how climate change impacts the design of settlements and institutions coping with displacement. Project Summary The speed and intensity of climate change is poised to reshape the landscape of displacement contexts in the Global South. As governments and organisations develop places of refuge, climate change is placing new pressures on both temporary and permanent settlements as well as disrupting conventions of whether proximity to home environments matter. This project will explore how the complicating factor of climate change influences the…

New APN Grant to Advance Flood Risk Decision-Making Under Climate Change

Post published:20 December 2021
Post category:News

The Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research Collaborative Regional Research Programme has awarded funding (USD 70,000) to a team led by Dr Aaron Opdyke to build decision-making capacity for flood risk under climate change. The project “Advancing Local Flood Decision-Making for Disaster Risk Reduction” aims to transform disaster risk assessments by understanding how climate change will impact localised flood risk and unpack how these assessments can be better incorporated into local planning processes. The project team will accomplish this through an in-depth study of two catchment basins located in the Municipality of Carigara (Leyte, Philippines) and the Regency of Singkil…