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What’s New? is a current digest of the Population-Environment Research Network (PERN), containing pertinent and up to date information to facilitate research and advance knowledge of population environment relationships. Previous "What’s New" newsletters (pdf) can be found via the "Past Newsletters" menu at the bottom of this page. Also try the top menu links to search/browse Events Calendar, Jobs/Funding, and eLibrary listings by year. Also, check out recent announcements on PERN's Twitter feed and Facebook page
Special Announcements
- PERN will continue its operations during the COVID-19 pandemic. Given that many conferences have been canceled, cyberseminars present an opportunity for this community of researchers to remain engaged and exchange ideas with one another.
- PERN plans to organize a cyberseminar on Population, Climate Change and Food Security from 18-25 May. Despite the central role demography plays in climate change and food security research, the topics remain understudied among demographers. The understanding of current and future population size, composition and spatial distribution as well as differentials in dietary patterns, vulnerability and adaptive capacity will help policy planning for future climate change. This cyberseminar will focus on the applications of methodological tools and concepts in demography, geography, economics, systems analysis and other related fields in analyzing the population-climate change-food security nexus.
- PERN co-coordinator Alex de Sherbinin will co-chair the Earth Institute at Columbia University’s second Managed Retreat conference in June 2021. This conference will focus on topics related to retreat from the coastal zone as well as areas at risk from other climate impacts, including floods, wildfires and prolonged droughts. Planning is at early stages, so suggestions on sessions and conference streams are welcome (email pernadmin@ ciesin.columbia.edu). Video recordings of sessions and selected presentations from the inaugural June 2019 conference, At What Point Managed Retreat?, are available at https://adaptation.ei.columbia.edu/content/what-point-managed-retreat-resilience-building-coastal-zone.
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Conferences/Workshops/Public Discussions
Call for Papers: “Health and Health Care in the Context of Environmental and Climate-Related Migration”, The International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH)
Environmental hazards due to climate change and other anthropogenic processes are drivers of voluntary and forced migration, both cross-border and internally. These hazards include droughts, flooding, sea level rise, storms, salinization, land degradation, and deforestation, among others.
While human mobility can be an adaptive response to environmental change, a large part of migrants are considered displaced populations. In some regions, such as the Greater Horn of Africa, the scale of environmental forced displacement is substantial, posing a challenge for the displaced, host communities, aid organizations, and governments. The public health implications of environmental migration, however, are still not understood well.
This Special Issue welcomes original articles that address health issues related to environmental and climate-induced migration, in particular of people displaced by droughts and land degradation in low- and middle-income countries. Topics include but are not limited to:
- Slow onset events (droughts, salinization, soil erosion);
- Sudden onset events (floods, cyclones);
- Cross-border migration and forced displacement;
- Internally displaced people;
- Food and water safety, famine;
- Mortality and morbidity, including infant and child health;
- Disease outbreaks;
- Mental health;
- Gender-based violence;
- Violent conflicts;
- Availability and quality of health care services;
- Living conditions in refugee camps and informal settlements.
Guest Editor: Dr. Barbara Schumann
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2020
For more information, see https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph/special_issues/health_environmental_migration
Funding/Study/Work Opportunities
Doctoral Positions at INED (Institut National D’Etudes Démographiques), Paris, France (INED (Institut National D’Etudes Démographiques))
INED is recruiting 3 doctoral students on three-year contracts starting 1 October 2020. Applicants must fulfil the following three criteria:
- Applicants must hold, or complete during the current academic year (2019-2020), a Master’s degree (M2) or equivalent in a discipline related to the population sciences and qualifying them for admission to a PhD programme in a French or foreign university.
- Applicants must be enrolled (first enrollment) in a doctoral programme in a French or foreign university for the academic year 2020-2021.
- The thesis director or the co-director of the thesis must be a researcher of INED. Candidates are called upon to directly solicit a researcher from INED in relation to their research theme.
There are no criteria in terms of age or nationality.
Full information is available at: https://www.ined.fr/en/research/PhD-students/call-applications/
Toutes les informations sont disponibles sur la page suivante: https://www.ined.fr/fr/recherche/accueil-doctoral/appel-candidature/
Application deadline: 29 May 2020 at 12:00 PM (noon, Paris time)