People on the Move in a Changing Climate—Alaska Workshop
The Dena'ina Center
Anchorage, Alaska
April 11–12, 2023
Contact: Ashley Dunker, ashley.dunker@alaska.edu • (907) 486-1500
Despite increased reference to the link between climate change and human mobility, which includes displacement, migration and planned relocation, there is a lack of knowledge on how socioeconomic, cultural, political, and environmental processes impact these population shifts. PEMOCC leverages Sea Grant’s trusted relationships with local communities to facilitate transdisciplinary collaborations among researchers, practitioners, resource managers and coastal stakeholders to improve understanding of how climate change drives human populations both towards and away from coastal regions in the U.S.
This workshop in Anchorage is the final workshop in a series of workshops held across the U.S. This workshop will focus on Alaska, the Pacific Islands, and provide case studies of climate induced human mobility across the world. This includes both areas where coastal residents are moving away from the coasts, and those areas where we might see receiving communities.
Agenda: The planning committee is currently working on the agenda and seeking feedback related to climate induced mobility in Alaska, the Pacific Region, and on the international scale. A final agenda will be distributed to registered participants with a week of the workshop.
There is limited travel assistance for this workshop. When you register you can request travel assistance. Any questions please contact the workshop coordinator Davin Holen at Alaska Sea Grant.