Wednesday, June 21, 2023

Climate Resettlement and Livelihood Transformation in Rwanda: The Case of Rweru Model Green Village

• Lisa Dale, Columbia University (lead presenter)
• Jola Ajibade, Associate Professor of Geography, Portland State University

Evidence of Erosive Effects of Household Shocks on Livelihoods and Migration in East Africa

• Julia Blocher, Project Lead, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (presenting)
• Roman Hoffmann, Research Scholar, The international Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
• Helga Weisz, FutureLab Leader/ Professor, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)/ Humboldt University in Berlin

Weather shocks, crop price and migration in West Africa: Insights from high-frequency largescale surveys

• Fabien Cottier, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Columbia University (presenting)
• Alex de Sherbinin, Deputy Director CIESIN and Senior Research Scientist, Columbia University
• Richard Seager, Lamont Research Professor, Columbia University
• Elizabeth Leong, Graduate student QMSS, Columbia University
• Elizabeth Nguyen, MA candidate, Climate & Society, Columbia University

Humanitarian Urbanism: How Multiple Risks of Climate Change and Land Degradation Overburden Cities in the Edge of Sahara

• Aliyu Barau, Professor, Bayero University Kano

A Field Perspective on Urban Climate Migration Governance

• Susan Ekoh, Researcher, German Institute of Development & Sustainability

Understanding climate migration receiving communities through a migration systems framework

• Kathryn McConnell, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Brown University Population Studies and Training Center (presenting)
• Elizabeth Fussell, Professor of Population Studies and Environment and Society, Brown University Population Studies and Training Center

Climate-Induced Human Migration in the Great Lakes Region

• Katherine Bunting-Howarth, Associate Director of New York Sea Grant and Assistant Director of Cornell Cooperative Extension (presenting)
• Andrea Harder, University at Buffalo

Receiving: Addressing Climate Gentrification in Real Estate

• Lian Plass, Senior Manager, Urban Resilience, Urban Land Institute

Policy and Governance Solutions for Receiving Communities

• Ira Feldman, Founder & Board Chair, Adaptation Leader

The Northeast as Climate Refuge? Migration Histories and Future Prospects

• Linda Shi, Assistant Professor, Cornell University

The challenges for Managed Retreats in South Asia Evidence from Sundarbans and Kuttanad

• Ajmalkhan Areethala, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University

Racial Disparities in U.S. Climate Migration

• Gabriela Nagle Alverio, Duke University (presenting)
• Dr. David Leblang, Ambassador Henry J. Taylor and Mrs Marion R. Taylor Endowed Professor of Politics, University of Virginia

Guardians of the Gulf: a coastal and human resiliency-focused STEAM program for underserved youth

• Sarah Grasty, Project Manager, University of South Florida, College of Marine Science/Guardians of the Gulf (presenting)
• Kristen Kusek, Director of Strategic Communications, USF College of Marine Science/Guardians of the Gulf

Projecting Health Impacts of Changing PM2.5 Emission Profiles Due to Climate Migration

• Chris Whitehead, Lead, air compliance practice, ESI

Environmental Justice is Racial Justice

• Aviva Rahmani, Ghostnets
• Charlene Stevens, Arcade Project

What is moved in a retreat and who moves these activities? What planners need to know

• Karen O'Neill, Associate Professor in Human Ecology, Rutgers University (presenting)
• Heather Fenyk, President, Lower Raritan Watershed Partnership

Institutional transition in managed retreat: Moving from a local, rights-based approach toward a centralized, process-centric approach

• Ju-Ching Huang, Maryland Sea Grant Legal and Policy Fellow & SJD Candidate, Georgetown Law Center

Armor or Withdraw? Likely Litigation and Potential Adjudication of Shoreland Conflicts Along Michigan’s Shifting Great Lakes Coasts

• Richard Norton, Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Michigan (presenting)
• Guy A. Meadows, Professor, Marine Engineering, Michigan Technological University
• Oday Salim, Director, Environmental Law & Sustainability Clinic, University of Michigan School of Law
• Matthew Piggins, University of Michigan
• Philip Washburn, University of Michigan
• Lauren Ashley Week, J.D. and M.U.R.P. Candidate, University of Michigan

Take Out the Trash When You Leave: Cleaning Up Properties Abandoned to Rising Seas

• Thomas Ruppert, Legal Specialist & Coastal Planning Specialist, Florida Sea Grant

Managed Retreat through the Regional Transfer of Development Rights: A Theoretical Case Study of North Carolina

• Kirsten Kinzer, Associate Professor, University of North Carolina Wilmington

Session chairs: Kelsea Best, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Maryland; Qian He, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Maryland Civil and Environmental Engineering; Deb Niemeier, Clark Distinguished Chair Professor, Director of Center for Disaster Resilience, University of Maryland; Allison Reilly, Assistant Professor, University of Maryland Civil and Environmental Engineering

Climate change and housing justice: implications for equitable adaptation

• Kelsea Best, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Maryland

Using Travel-time to Essential Services to Identify Vulnerable and Fragile Communities

• Utkuhan Genc, Purdue University

Robustness of Flood Protection Project Evaluation to Alternative Benefit Metrics

• David Johnson, Purdue University

How do Presidential Declared Disasters and Federal Aid Programs affect Renter Eviction Risks? Longitudinal Evidence from the United States

• Qian He, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Maryland Civil and Environmental Engineering

Infrastructure reliability and the burden of sea-level rise: Do current planning metrics capture the correct risk?

• Allison Reilly, Assistant Professor, University of Maryland Civil and Environmental Engineering

Variations in equity prioritization when designing flood-resilient, urban housing policy for climate adaptation governance

• Melissa Tier, PhD candidate, Princeton University (presenting)
• Elke Weber, Professor of Psychology & Public Affairs, Princeton University

Governing Transformation: Identifying and Combating Power in Managed Retreat

• Tyler Cooper-Kolb, Master’s student, Oregon State University

Closing the Gap Between Adaptation Justice in Theory and Practice: Practical Dilemmas from Managed Retreat

• A.R. Siders, Assistant Professor, University of Delaware

White Communities in Retreat: Climate Change, Privilege, and Adaptation in US Cities

• Kevin Loughran, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Temple University (presenting)
• James R. Elliott, Rice University
• Jay Wang, Rice University

Green infrastructure solutions to support flood mitigation and adaptation in coastal low-lying disadvantaged communities

• Narcisa Pricope, Professor, University of North Carolina Wilmington (presenting)
• Leah Mayo, Interim Assistant Dean for Community Engagement and Health Equity, University of North Carolina Wilmington
• Joanne Halls, Professor, University of North Carolina Wilmington
• Crystal Dixon, Assistant Professor of the Practice, Health and Exercise Science and Racial Equity Consultant, Wake Forest University

Visualizing Relocation on a Spatial Spectrum: A Tool for Organizing Refuge alongside Community

• Laura Durgerian, Senior Associate Landscape Architect & Urban Designer, Mithun

Session Chairs: Haley Blakeman, FASLA, PLA, Associate Director and Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture, LSU; Anne Junod, Senior Research Associate, The Urban Institute

Panelists:

• Traci Birch, LSU 
• Haley Blakeman, LSU
• Anne Junod, Urban Institute 
• Dan Teles, Urban Institute
• Breno Braga, Urban Institute 

Session Chairs: Hannah Friedrich, Ph.D. Student, School of Geography, Development, and Environment, University of Arizona; Alex Saunders, Ph.D. Student, School of Geography, Development, and Environment, University of Arizona; Emmalina Glinskis, Master’s Student, University of California Berkeley, City and Regional Planning

Panelists:

• Jacob Bradt, Harvard University
• Ian Gray, UCLA/Centre Alexandre Koyré at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociale (EHESS)
• Clay Kerchof, California Department of Housing & Community Development
• Rachel M. Young, Princeton University 

Community Responses to Managed Retreat: Exploring Trade-offs through an Adaptation Alternatives Assessment in Hull, Massachusetts

• Bella Purdy, Climate Resilience Planner, Weston & Sampson
• Joanna Nadeau, Senior Resilience Planner, Weston & Sampson
• Chris Krahforst, Direct of Climate Adaptation, Town of Hull

Reimagining Water-Dependent Educational and Recreational Institutions in Coastal Areas

• Diane Mas, Chief Resilience & Sustainability Officer, Fuss & O’Neill, Inc. (presenting)
• Chris Gasiorek, Sr. Vice President of Operations and Watercraft, Mystic Seaport Museum
• Katherine Kahl, Extension Assistant Professor, Sustainable Fisheries & Coastal Resilience, Gloucester Marine Station, University of Massachusetts Amherst
• Sara Morrison, Business Line Manager – Climate Resilience, Fuss & O’Neill, Inc.

Understanding and Addressing Barriers to Managed Retreat along the Coast of Massachusetts

• Kristin Uiterwyk, Director, Urban Harbors Institute, University of Massachusetts Boston

Weighing risk to coastal living: Climate change threats, COVID-19 outbreak, and the housing crisis in Northeastern US

• Kanako Iuchi, Associate Professor, Tohoku University (presenting)
• Donovan Finn, Assistant Professor, Stonybrook University
• John Mutter, Professor, Columbia University

Retreat in Real Time – Nantucket’s Balancing Act Along a Changing Coast

• Devon McKaye, Resilience Planner, Arcadis (presenting)
• Vince Murphy, Town of Nantucket, Sustainability Programs Manager

Session chairs: Rachel Harrington-Abrams, Ph.D. Student, King’s College London; Erica Bower, PhD Student, Stanford University

• Ka'aina Hull, Planning Director for the County of Kaua'i (session chair)
• Charles “Chip” Fletcher, the Interim Dean of the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, University of Hawai'i
• Additional speakers TBA

Session Chair: Camille Manning-Broome, President & CEO, Center for Planning Excellence