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'Risk, Society, and Culture' & 'Climates of Migration'

Special Sessions - Fourth International Disaster and Risk Conference

26.08.2012 – 30.08.2012

Location: Davos, Switzerland

The RCC collaborated with the Global Risk Forum GRF Davos to sponsor several events at Fourth International Disaster and Risk Conference (IDRC) Davos 2012. Coordinated by Uwe Lübken (Climates of Migrations) and in response to the jointly released Call for Papers (pdf, 155 KB), the RCC put together two plenary sessions as well as a conference session. Read on for more information about the individual sessions and plenaries; participants sponsored by the RCC are indicated with an asterik (*).

Panel Overview with Abstracts (pdf, 175 KB)

Disasters, Environment, and Migration (Plenary Session 8.2) (includes videos from the event)

Session Chair: Bron Taylor (RCC/University of Florida)*

Panelists:

  • Jörn Birkmann, Head of Section, United Nations University Institute for Envrionmenat and Human Security UNU-EHS, Bonn, Germany
  • Eric Des Marais, Adjunct Faculty, Graduate School of Social Work, University of Denver, USA
  • Uwe Lübken, Research Fellow, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich, Germany
  • Franz Mauelshagen, Executive Board Member and Program Coordinator of "Climate & Culture," Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut, KWI), Essen, Germany
  • Anthony Oliver-Smith, Professor, University of Florida, USA

Open Forum on Risk and Society (Plenary 7) (includes videos from the events)

Session Chair: James Herbert Williams, Professor, Graduate School of Social Work, University of Denver, USA

Panelists:

  • Edgar Grande, Professor,  LMU Munich / Board Member - Munich Center on Governance
  • Anthony Oliver-Smith, Professor, University of Florida, USA*
  • Louis Pauly, Professor, University of Toronto, Canada
  • Christoph Stueckelberg, Professor & Executive Director and Founder of Globethics.net,  Geneva, Switzerland
  • Bron Taylor (RCC/University of Florida)*

Parallel Session: Climate Change, Migration and Displacement

Chair: Uwe Lübken (RCC)*

Papers:

  • Andreas Rechkammer, “Social Perspectives on Land Degradation and Desertification: The Case of Migration and Conflict”
  • Giacomo Parrinello (RCC), “From Displacements to Migrations: The Earthquake of Messina (1908) and the Earthquake of the Belice Valley (1968)”*
  • Rebecca Hofmann (RCC), “Does Environmental Degradation lead the way out of Chuuk, FSM?”*
  • Anja Meutsch, ”The Protection of Environmental Refugees through International Public Law”
  • Eric Anthony Des Marais, “Developing Best Practices for the Resettlement of Environmental Migrants: The Next Step”
  • Ralf Tiety, Sotiria Papadopoulou, and Grit Kümmele, “Climate Change, Climate Refugees and Human Mobility” (Photo Project on Mobility and the Environment)

 

More information including the entire program can be found on the conference website