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Posts by Kees van der Geest

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New book out: Climate Mobility Justice.
It examines how climate change and human (im)mobilities are narrated, governed, and contested across media, policy, art, and activism it calls for justice-centered, care-based alternatives.

More info: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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📢📢 Next week we will launch the Guiding Framework & Toolkit on integrating #HumanMobility & rural livelihoods into climate action!
🌍 Co-hosted by @FAO & @UNUEHS.
🗓️Thursday, 15 May
⏰ 11:00 – 12:30 UTC
📌Online webinar
Registration: bit.ly/4iR2Qme

11 months ago 1 1 0 0
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Our #SummerSchool ☀️ #Call4Applications 📝 is open!
➡️Exploring the intersections of climate change, migration, (im)mobilities, resilience & climate futures
➡️14–18 July 2025 at the #UniversityOfVienna 🎓
➡️No tuition fee - Apply by 31 May
Application link: lnkd.in/dqxvdY5e
More info: lnkd.in/dVEXWf8r

11 months ago 2 2 1 0
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🌍 New Policy Brief: "The Nexus Between Climate Change, Human Mobility, and Mental Health"

This brief highlights the mental health challenges of climate-displaced populations and calls for urgent action on support, empowerment, and tech-driven policy change.

Read here: go.unu.edu/gQrX8

#UNUat50

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“There’s Just No More Land” The 66-page report, “‘There’s Just No More Land’: Community-led Planned Relocation as Last-resort Adaptation to Sea Level Rise in Solomon Islands,” documents why Walande community members made the dif...

Thrilled to join BlueSky and share a new @hrw.org report just launched today

‘There’s Just No More Land’: Community-led Planned Relocation as Last-resort Adaptation to Sea Level Rise in Solomon Islands

www.hrw.org/report/2025/...

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New piece by a great author team spotlights a community in Fiji waiting for lasting solutions to their displacement. Calling attention to state and humanitarian obligations, it lays out out a rights-based path forward. researchinginternaldisplacement.org/short_pieces...
@rli-sas.bsky.social

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Introducing a new L&D guiding framework and toolkit by FAO, this blog explores how, with inclusive adaptation and mitigation planning & action, loss & damage experienced in the climate change, rural livelihood and (im)mobility nexus can be reduced. researchinginternaldisplacement.org/short_pieces...

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🔥 ⚖️ today: day 2 of #ClimateJustice hearing in #SaulvsRWE
🏛️ The Higher Regional Court in Hamm (🇩🇪) reviews if a #fossilfuels company can be held accountable for climate harms, potentially setting a historic precedent.
🐦 📝 I am reporting live from the Court's room.
🧵 🔽 thread below

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📢📢 Only two weeks left to submit your abstract for the ECMN conference in Bonn (8-10 July 2025)! 86 colleagues have already submitted theirs! Here is a FAQ page and the submission form: www.climatemobilities.network/ecmn25/
Hope to see you along the Rhine River in Bonn this summer!!!

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📣📣 It's a great pleasure to announce the Call for Papers of the 3rd Annual Conference of the Environment & Climate Mobility Network (ECMN) in Bonn, Germany (8-10 July 2025).

Please access the full #CfP and submit your abstract by 10 March 2025 at
www.climatemobilities.network/ecmn25/

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Opinion | Is America Just Going to Abandon Its Towns Falling Into the Ocean? Communities must be able to move to solid ground while remaining whole.

"Rural towns and villages generally lack the resources to build enormous sea walls or levees to hold back storms and the rising tide. Many of these communities will have no choice but to relocate," Stephen Lezak writes.

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My first day on Bluesky 🌞. I will post, like and share content related to research on #ClimateChange and #HumanMobility (migration, displacement, planned relocation, immobility). I also work on #LossAndDamage. Outside work, I love growing my own food. Follow me and I will follow you!🤝

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CALL FOR PAPERS! Start your work year off right by submitting a proposal for the workshop 'Governing Climate Mobilities 15 Years After the Cancun Agreements', being convened by me in Krems from 27th-29th May 2025. Submissions here: forms.office.com/e/Xgvr59fjAc.

Photo: © Stadt Krems

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Opinion | Is America Just Going to Abandon Its Towns Falling Into the Ocean? (Gift Article) Communities must be able to move to solid ground while remaining whole.

Great op Ed in nytimes today about organized relocations in USA due to MSLR. Ive gifted it here so others can read if it’s behind pay wall www.nytimes.com/2025/01/04/o...

1 year ago 4 4 0 0
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Habitability for a connected, unequal and changing world As global climate change intensifies, the question of what makes a place habitable or uninhabitable is critical, particularly in the context of a pote…

1/ 🚨 What drives #habitability changes in an era of climate crisis? Our new paper dives into the complex, dynamic, and socially differentiated concept of habitability. Here’s what you need to know 🧵 #ClimateChange #Habitability sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @HABITABLE_H2020

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Thanks Simon! I would love to be added to the group.

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