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Linking the Earth’s Future to Migration: Scenarios of Environmental Change and Possible Impacts on Forced Migration
Frühmann, J. and Jäger, J. (2010)
In: Environment, Forced Migration and Social Vulnerability (2010): 247-262
This chapter discusses how to develop scenarios of environmental change to estimate future migration flows that are forced by environmental degradation. The methodology as well as the examples presented here was developed in the EU-funded project EACH-FOR ( www.each-for.eu ). [...]
Climate change as a threat to biodiversity: An application of the DPSIR approach
Omann, I.;Stocker, A. and Jäger, J. (2009)
In: Ecological Economics Journal
Abstract:
Climate change and its consequences present one of the most important threats to biodiversity and the functions of ecosystems. The stress on biodiversity is far beyond the levels imposed by the global climatic changes occurring in the recent evolutionary past. It includes temperature [...]
New Book – Research on Sustainable Development
Just published: European Research on Sustainable Development
Volume 1: Transformative Science Approaches for Sustainability [...]
This book, edited by Carlo Jaeger, J. David Tabara and Julia Jaeger, contains the winning papers from the European Conference on R&D for Sustainable Development held in Brussels in 2009 together with a selection of other papers. In her chapter on
VISION RD4SD response to Green Paper on CSF
The VISION RD4SD project has submitted a response to the European Commission Green Paper on the Common Strategic Framework. The Common Strategic Framework (CSF) is the proposed follow-up to the 7th Framework Programme for EU research funding.
The response [...]of VISION RD4SD underlines the importance of including sustainable development and sustainability science in the
New project started: InContext – Individuals in Context: Supportive Environments for Sustainable Living
Why do policies aimed at initiating local and individual transition pathways towards sustainable development all too often not achieve the expected level of change? How should people be addressed to make them change? InContext will address these questions by dealing with the complexity of the contexts of individual behaviour and how these should be taken [...]
Call for paper for”Environmental Degradation and Conflict: From Vulnerabilities to Capabilities”
The European Science Foundation (ESF) – in partnership with Bielefeld University and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) – is organising a conference on “Environmental Degradation and Conflict: From Vulnerabilities to Capabilities” [...] which will be held from 5 – 9 December 2010 in Germany.
This conference will be chaired by Prof. Thomas Faist, University of
Project EACH-FOR presented in “Hommes & Migrations”
Jill Jäger took part in the presentation of the SERI-Project EACH-FOR in the french journal “Hommes & Migrations” [...]. “Hommes & Migrations” is the leading French journal on migration issues, and has a wide audience in the francophone world.
In this special issue, one will find :
- 6 articles drawing upon EACH-FOR fieldwork, translated
LINKING THE EARTH’S FUTURE TO MIGRATION
Scenarios of environmental change and possible impacts on forced migration
Frühmann, J., Jäger, J., (2008)
Environmental change has various effects on livelihoods and may force people to migrate. Several case studies are carried out within the EACH-FOR project to investigate the contribution of
natural degradation to migration flows. Hotspots of environmental degradation have been identified [...]
