Workshop on climate change and migration in mountain areas

This meeting aims to bring together both senior and junior scholars with an interest in migration and/or climate change in mountain areas, covering the world*s major mountain ranges, including (but not necessarily limited to) the Himalaya, Andes and Alps.

The aim will be to take stock of existing knowledge, focusing on findings from empirical studies, and develop a mountain-specific research agenda to understand the likely relationship between migration and climate change in affected regions over the next 2-3 decades.  Such a research agenda should incorporate a strong comparative focus, in order both to explore policy priorities across mountains, as well as to question assumptions and specificities of locally and regionally-based mountain research.

Organisers are the University of Sussex (UK) [Richard Black] and the University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland) [Etienne Piguet]. This meeting is supported by the Cost Action IS1101 Climate change and migration: knowledge, law and policy, and theory and by the IGU Commission on population geography.

Fees: Participation is free

• Submission of proposals by     **31 March 2012**
• Feedback of acceptance by        07 April 2012

Anyone wishing to attend the workshop without presenting are requested to register before 15 April 2012 with migration@sussex.ac.uk