Climate change is influencing rural livelihoods across the globe—and scientists anticipate increasing and substantial risk to both social and natural systems through the course of this century.
Who: Open to the public
What: “Climate Change & Human Migration: Research Examples from Mexico”
When: Tuesday, Nov. 7, 6:30 p.m.
Where: Hellems Arts and Sciences, room 199
Pizza will be served! Arrive early for a seat and a slice.
Shifts in temperature and rainfall are especially impactful for impoverished households in low-income settings and those heavily dependent on local natural resources or agriculture. In the face of environmental strain, migration has long been used as an adaptive strategy.
The Arts and Sciences Honors Program presents Professor Lori Hunter for a distinguished lecture titled “Climate Change & Human Migration: Research Examples from Mexico.” She will review recent evidence of the migration-environment connection and findings from several of her recent collaborative studies on the migration-environment connection within rural Mexico.
Hunter is a professor of sociology and the director of the CU Population Center in the Institute of Behavioral Science.
Her research and teaching focus on linkages between environmental context and human population dynamics. Specific settings include rural South Africa and Mexico, where Hunter links rural livelihoods strategies, including migration, to local shifts in rainfall, temperature and natural resource availability. She is also beginning a research agenda on small rural places across America and the factors that shape residents’ well-being.
