Dr. Elliott\, David W . Leebron Professor and Chair of Sociology at Rice University\, will presen t a lecture titled “What’s Really Happening in Climate Desettlement Zones? Residential Relocation\, Community Attainment & the Revolving Door of Risk. "
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Writers\, researchers\, and policymakers now assert th at millions of North Americans will have to relocate from areas of growing climate risk. In communities across the continent\, that relocation is alre ady underway\, most notably in government-funded desettlement zones. Yet\, we continue to know surprisingly little about how residential retreat from these frontline communities is actually happening. This talk helps fill tha t gap. It will review related policies\, where they are occurring\, and how researchers can construct granular\, multidimensional datasets to investig ate how residents are moving in response to local risks and the policy inte rventions currently aimed at reducing them. The aim is to ground and sharpe n how you think about climate “retreat” and “displacement” more generally i n the years ahead.
James (Jim) Elliott is the David W. Leebron Professor and Chair of Sociology at Rice Universit y. He is also the founding Co-Director of the Center for Coastal Futures an d Adaptative Resilience (CFAR).
His current research focuses on the e ntwining of social inequality\, environmental hazards\, and climate adaptat ion. He has served as a program advisor for the US National Science Foundat ion and as the Co-editor of Sociological Perspectives\, the offici al journal of the Pacific Sociological Association. He is a recent contribu tor to the US Federal Emergency Management’s Civil Rights Summit on Climate Adaptation as well as to the US National Academies of Sciences’ recent nat ional workshop on the social challenges of tropical cyclones.
His co- authored book Sites Unseen: Uncovering Hidden Hazards in American Citie s (with Scott Frickel) won the Robert E. Park Award for best book from the community and urban section of the American Sociological Association.< /p>
Fin d out more about Dr. Elliott here.
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