My Climate Risk Interdisciplinary Learning Group

Biography

Alex Arnall is a Human Geographer studying the relationship between society and environmental change, mainly in relation to coastal management, erosion and flooding. There are presently three central themes to my work:1) how sea level rise is understood and being acted upon by governments and affected coastal communities; 2) the social dimensions of managed retreat as a flood management and coastal rewilding strategy; 3) Natural Flood Management (NFM) in inland and coastal settings, especially with regard to local community involvement and action. To date, my research has looked at these issues and interventions in three main countries: Mozambique, the Maldives and the UK. He has a DPhil in Geography from the University of Oxford on development processes in flood-affected resettlement communities. Prior to joining the University of Reading, I worked as a Consultant for the international firm Environmental Resources Management (ERM) and then as a Research Officer at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS).

Paper to be presented

Title: Wishful sinking: Disappearing islands, climate refugees and cosmopolitan experimentation

Author: Carol Farbotko

 Jan 25 talk _Asia Pacific Viewpoint – 2010 – Farbotko – Wishful sinking Disappearing islands climate refugees and cosmopolitan

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, Vol. 51, No. 1, April 2010 
ISSN 1360-7456, pp47–60

     

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