Thursday, June 24

Beth Tellman, Post doctoral Scientist, Columbia University, The Earth Institute at Columbia University

Alex de Sherbinin, Associate Director, CIESIN, The Earth Institute at Columbia University

Kytt MacManus, GIS Developer, Columbia University

Cascade Tuholske, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, CIESIN, The Earth Institute at Columbia University

Charles Huyck, Executive Vice President, ImageCat

Andrew Bell

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Planned Retreat Approaches to Support Resilience to Climate Change in Canada: Good Practices and Considerations for Proactive Retreat

Mary-Ann Wilson, Natural Resources Canada

John Sommerville, Natural Resources Canada

Brent Doberstein, University of Waterloo 

Patrick Saunders-Hastings, Gevity Consulting Inc.

Michael Barnard, Gevity Consulting Inc.

Slow Abandonment as Managed Retreat

Liam Grealy, University of Sydney

Just retreat – how different countries deal with it: examples from Austria and England

Thomas Thaler, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences

Moving Toward Resilience: Attitudes and perceptions of ‘pros and cons’ of migration and in-place adaptation, in rural communities facing climate impacts

Sangita Das, Church World Service

Andrew Fuys, CWS

Exploring the potential of a community co-design framework to address equitable community relocation – an assessment of three relocation cases after large-scale environmental change in Asia 

Kanako Iuchi, Tohoku University- IRIDeS

John Mutter, Columbia University

Resistance, acceptance and misalignment of goals in climate-related resettlement in Malawi

Hebe Nicholson, University of St Andrews

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Adaptive Governance Initiative

Camille Manning-Broome, Center for Planning Excellence

Jeannette Dubinin, Center for Planning Excellence

Joni Hammons, Center for Planning Excellence

Exploring Managed Retreat in the Land of Steady Habits

Bruce Hyde, University of Connecticut, Department of Extension

Juliana Barrett, University of Connecticut

Key Decisions in Development Control and Managed Retreat - Western Australia

Ashley Robb, Western Australian Local Government Association

Garry Middle, WA Local Government Association

Law's Disaster: Heritage at Risk

Sara Bronin, UConn Law School

Legal Remedies for Climate-Induced Displacement and Migration

Caroline Petruzzi McHale, Cleary Gottlieb

Lessons Learned from Two Relocations of Indigenous Communities: Newtok, AK and Isle de Jean Charles, LA, Barrett Ristroph, Ristroph Law, Planning, and Research

Managed retreat in a context of three kinds of emergencies: The case of Louisiana’s coast

Ioan Fazy, University of York

James Butler, CSIRO 

Justin Kozak, The Center for Planning Excellence

Jeannette Dubinin, The Center for Planning Excellence

Camille Manning-Broome, The Center for Planning Excellence

Denise Reed, University of New Orleans

Graham Leicester, International Futures Forum

Stacey Anne-Burge, Castle Water

Beverley Searle, University of Dundee

Matthew Fuchs, The Pew Charitable Trusts

Cornelia Dean, The New York Times

Mathew Sanders, The Pew Charitable Trusts

JaLeesa Tate, Maryland Emergency Management Agency

Eric Letvin, FEMA

Aviva Rahmani, INSTAAR University of Colorado at Boulder

Nina Kantcheva Tushev, Tushevs Aerials and UNDP

Eliza Evans, All the Way to Hell LLC

Bebonkwe Brown, Cree/Anishnawbe/Metis visual

M. Charlene Stevens, Arcade Project

Katharine Mach, University of Miami

Robin Bronen, Alaska Institute for Justice

Jola Ajibade, Portland State University

Radley Horton, Consortium for Climate Risk in the Urban Northeast

Richard Moss, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Bina Desai, Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre

Marjolijn Haasnoot, Deltares

Brad Wible, Science Magazine

Mizan Khan, International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD)

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Enhancing the inclusion of vulnerable communities in adaptation planning

David Samuel Williams, Istanbul Policy Center, Sabancı University

Integrated Climate Risk Assessment and HyperLocal Approaches to Climate Adaptation for South Florida Tyler Harrison, University of Miami

Angela Clark, University of Miami

Amy Clement, University of Miami

Joanna Lombard, University of Miami

Gina Maranto, University of Miami

Abraham Parrish, University of Miami

Sam Purkis, University of Miami

Marcus Reamer, University of Miami

Olivia Collins, The CLEO Institute

Caroline Lewis, The CLEO Institute

Mayra Cruz, Catalyst Miami

Anaruth Solache, Catalyst Miami

Optimal Coastal Protection Against Storm-Induced Flooding and Sea Level Rise Accounting for Stakeholder Input

Yuki Miura, Columbia University

Philip Dinenis, Columbia University

Kyle Mandli, Columbia University

George Deodatis, Columbia University

Daniel Bienstock, Columbia University

Heather Lazrus, UCAR

Rebecca Morss, UCAR

Socioclimatic Risk across the Conterminous USA

Maximilian Stiefel, University of California, Santa Barbara

Tropical cyclone risk modeling

Adam Sobel, Columbia University

Chia-Ying Lee, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University

Jane Baldwin, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University

Suzana Camargo, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University

Michael Tippett (Dept. of Applied Physics & Applied Mathematics, Columbia University

Kyle Mandli, Dept. of Applied Physics & Applied Mathematics, Columbia University

Katy Wilson, Columbia University

Understanding the Impacts of Managed Retreat and Resettlement on Informal Communities in Puerto Rico

Santina Contreras, Ohio State University

Monique Lorenzo, Ohio State University

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Climate Change, Planned Relocation and Development Assistance

Robert Stojanov, Mendel University

Alex de Sherbinin, CIESIN, The Earth Institute at Columbia University

Sarah Rosengaertner, Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility

Creating Home: Multilevel Governance Structures for Emerging Climate Migration 

Alice Kaswan, University of San Francisco School of Law

Mapping Social and Natural Hazards: A Survey of Potential for Managed Retreat in the United States

Karim Ahmed, The New School

The Effects of Migration During the San Francisco Bay Area Housing Crisis on Regional Wildfire Hazard

Isaac Gendler, California Public Utilities Commission

Why Smallholders Stop Engaging in Forest Activities - The Role of Migration in Livelihood Transitions in Southwest Ethiopia

Juliane Groth, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ))

Patrick Sakdapolrak (University of Vienna), Feyera Senbeta

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Changing Uses and Values of O‘ahuʻs Coastlines Under Sea Level Rise

Makena Coffman, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

Alisha Summers, University of Hawaiʻi Manoa

Leah Bremer, University of Hawaiʻi Manoa

William Kinney Jr., University of Hawaiʻi Manoa

Laurel Mei-Singh, University of Hawaiʻi Manoa

Lisa Kelley, University of Colorado, Denver

Grounding the “Third Rail”: How to Build Community Buy-in for Managed Retreat

Paul Gallay, Undergraduate Major in Sustainable Development

Livelihoods and ‘Lifeways’: discourses about land and sense of place in managed retreat policies in coastal Louisiana

Meghan Sullivan, Portland State University              

Negotiating risk trade-offs in disaster-induced relocation

Balakrishnan Balachandran, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Observations of the Akiak Home Relocation and Managed Retreat Project 

Joel Neimeyer, Neimeyer Consulting

The role of policymakers and practitioners in equitable relocation practices

Rachel Isacoff, The Rockefeller Foundation

Eve Mosher, Works on Water

Sarah Cameron Sunde, Works on Water

Jola Ajibade, Portland State University

Robin Bronen, Alaska Institute for Justice

Mathew Sanders, The Pew Charitable Trusts

Elizabeth Fussell, Brown University

Carlos Martin, Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program

Marion McFadden, Enterprise Community Partners

Joseph Thompson, US GAO

Micah McMillan, US GAO

Bonnie Ora Sherk, Life Frames, Inc.

Scott Warner, University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia / BBJ Group, California

Carl Anthony, Breakthrough Communities

Sophie Maxwell, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission

John Englander, Rising Seas Institute

Jared Huffman, US Congressman, Dem-CA, 2nd Congressional District

Betsy Damon, Keepers of the Waters

Mark Abkowitz, Vanderbilt University

Allie Reilly, WSP USA

Leah Dundon, Vanderbilt University

Richard Davis, Principal, Beveridge & Diamond, P.C.

Miyuki Hino, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Carolyn Kousky, Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center

Katharine Mach, University of Miami

Thomas Ruppert, Florida Sea Grant