Event description:

The results of following three papers on vulnerability and resilience in the context of environmental change and migration, commissioned by the KNOMAD Thematic Working Group on Environmental Change and Migration, will be presented by the speakers:

• SOUMYADEEP BANERJEE, DOMINIC KNIVETON, RICHARD BLACK AND SUMAN BISHT
  Do financial remittances build household level adaptive capacity? A case study of the flood affected villages of Upper Assam in India
• MARCO VENIER AND BARBARA BENDANDI
  Vulnerability and resilience in West Africa: Understanding human mobility in the context of land degradation
• CAROLINE ZICKGRAF, SARA VIGILA, FLORENCE DE LONGUEVILLEA, PIERRE OZERB, AND FRANÇOIS GEMENNE
  The Impact of Vulnerability and Resilience to Environmental Changes on Mobility Patterns in West Africa

Light lunch will be served.