Gamma Pi |
Sustainability Lecture: Climate change, disasters, and migration systems |
| Date: Feb 8, 2022 at 4:30pm to 5:30pm | |
Register (https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/1716432319218/WN_RHkY5nCsR0Crc-gJPj0p8g) and watch this free virtual lecture for a sustainability service point! Send a picture of you at the event (with the zoom in the background) to samgb@umich.edu to receive your point!
The topic:
While weather-related disasters happen regularly, protective infrastructure and building codes usually prevent population loss. Hurricane Katrina’s devastating effects on New Orleans’ levee system and the built environment in other coastline communities in the Gulf of Mexico in 2005 is the exception that proves this rule. Or is it? Empirical studies of hurricane exposure and county-level population change show heterogeneous patterns of post-hurricane population trends. This presentation reviews research on this topic using the weather and population data currently available, and then considers the data and methods that would allow us to answer key questions about disaster-related migration in the US. | |