Migration, Climate Change and the Environment Webster Geneva Campus

Overview

The adverse impacts of climate change are increasingly leading to human mobility worldwide, with significant implications for policy-makers in government, NGO and humanitarian organizations, and even for international companies.

Key Features

The Migration, Climate Change and the Environment program from Webster Geneva Campus will benefit from a wide network of international partners, in particular United Nations agencies, non-governmental organizations, diplomatic missions and a wide array of academic and research partners that work on human mobility and environmental issues.

Students enrolling in the program will be able to:

• Understand and recognize the key characteristics of migration in the context of climate change and environmental degradation.
• Know the main terminology used in this context, including migration, displacement and planned relocation.
• Recognize the different forms of slow onset processes of environmental change that influence migration and different types of relevant policy intervention.
• Recognize the different typologies of disasters and different types of mobility forms related to disasters and different types of relevant policy interventions.
• Understand the diverse data challenges related to the study of migration in the context of climate change and environmental degradation and comprehend different methodologies and approaches to data collection and analysis.
• Identify legal frameworks, bodies of law including environmental law, international and regional human rights instruments of relevance to the protection of people moving in the context of disasters, climate change and environmental degradation.
• Place the issue of migration climate change and environmental degradation in the current broad development, humanitarian, environment, migration and refugees, disaster risk reduction, human rights, resource management, urban, health and food agendas.
• Identify key contemporary debates and initiatives regarding the protection of people moving in the context of disasters, climate change and environmental degradation.
• Comprehend available tools, policies, practices, programs and processes of relevance.
• Connect the issue of migration and climate change to other contemporary global challenges in health.
• Gain the ability to plan, organize and carry out research projects on migration, climate change, disasters and environmental degradation as well as the skills necessary to convey theoretical knowledge of this topic to a variety of different audiences.
• Recognize main actors and key players of relevance.