ISIM:

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

This course examines the role of climate change and other environmental factors on the migration and displacement of individuals and communities. The course will include analysis of environmental risk due to physical processes, drivers and patterns of migration and the intersections of environmental and socio-economic factors that lead people to move. The course will also focus on the consequences for those who move, for the destination communities, for those left behind and for national and international politics.