Connecting environmental changes and human mobility
Venue
Ascona
Switzerland
Negotiations on two global compacts, and a resolution at the UN, have brought climate change and human mobility into the limelight. The Conference aims to make a timely contribution to a progressive transformation of our knowledge.
The Conference will adopt a novel threefold approach: normative, historical and visual analytical. The focus is on interactive means of kick-starting dialogues by means of innovative workshops followed by keynote speeches from experts. The thematic workshops are based on:
- (i) exploring the past and imagining new futures,
- (ii) climate change and migration – visual analytics,
- (iii) legal developments and implementation in the field, and (iv) the global compacts – on migration and for refugees.
These workshops create a space for presentations and reflection; therefore PhDs and young researchers interested in interactive tools (such as geo-archives and interactive maps) for informing society, or in learning more about the topics being discussed will find the exchange particularly beneficial. The user-friendly portrayal of big data on migration flows and the geosystem is aimed at members of the public by presenting complex empirical results in an understandable manner. The Conference will contribute to the knowledge-based society targets in these challenging subjects, prioritised as policy issues at international, regional and local levels.
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