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Kees van der Geest

@keesvandergeest.bsky.social

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Human Geographer | UNU-EHS | Head of EMIC | Research: #HumanMobility in the context of #ClimateChange. #Migration #Displacement #PlannedRelocation #LossAndDamage #NELD #ECMN

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Kees van der Geest @keesvandergeest.bsky.social · May 8

📢📢 Next week we will launch the Guiding Framework & Toolkit on integrating #HumanMobility & rural livelihoods into climate action!
🌍 Co-hosted by @FAO & @UNUEHS.
🗓️Thursday, 15 May
⏰ 11:00 – 12:30 UTC
📌Online webinar
Registration: bit.ly/4iR2Qme

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Trans|Form Research @transformres.bsky.social · May 8

Our #SummerSchool ☀️ #Call4Applications 📝 is open!
➡️Exploring the intersections of climate change, migration, (im)mobilities, resilience & climate futures
➡️14–18 July 2025 at the #UniversityOfVienna 🎓
➡️No tuition fee - Apply by 31 May
Application link: lnkd.in/dqxvdY5e
More info: lnkd.in/dVEXWf8r

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UNU Maastricht Economic and Social Research and Training Centre @unumerit.bsky.social · Apr 16

🌍 New Policy Brief: "The Nexus Between Climate Change, Human Mobility, and Mental Health"

This brief highlights the mental health challenges of climate-displaced populations and calls for urgent action on support, empowerment, and tech-driven policy change.

Read here: go.unu.edu/gQrX8

#UNUat50

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Researching Internal Displacement @rid-networks.bsky.social · Apr 3

Introducing a new L&D guiding framework and toolkit by FAO, this blog explores how, with inclusive adaptation and mitigation planning & action, loss & damage experienced in the climate change, rural livelihood and (im)mobility nexus can be reduced. researchinginternaldisplacement.org/short_pieces...

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Researching Internal Displacement @rid-networks.bsky.social · Mar 27

New piece by a great author team spotlights a community in Fiji waiting for lasting solutions to their displacement. Calling attention to state and humanitarian obligations, it lays out out a rights-based path forward. researchinginternaldisplacement.org/short_pieces...
@rli-sas.bsky.social

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🌍⚖️ Sébastien Duyck @duycks.bsky.social · Mar 19

🔥 ⚖️ today: day 2 of #ClimateJustice hearing in #SaulvsRWE
🏛️ The Higher Regional Court in Hamm (🇩🇪) reviews if a #fossilfuels company can be held accountable for climate harms, potentially setting a historic precedent.
🐦 📝 I am reporting live from the Court's room.
🧵 🔽 thread below

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Erica Rose Bower @ericarosebower.bsky.social · Mar 17

Thrilled to join BlueSky and share a new @hrw.org report just launched today

‘There’s Just No More Land’: Community-led Planned Relocation as Last-resort Adaptation to Sea Level Rise in Solomon Islands

www.hrw.org/report/2025/...

“There’s Just No More Land”

The 66-page report, “‘There’s Just No More Land’: Community-led Planned Relocation as Last-resort Adaptation to Sea Level Rise in Solomon Islands,” documents why Walande community members made the dif...

www.hrw.org

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Kees van der Geest @keesvandergeest.bsky.social · Feb 3

📣📣 It's a great pleasure to announce the Call for Papers of the 3rd Annual Conference of the Environment & Climate Mobility Network (ECMN) in Bonn, Germany (8-10 July 2025).

Please access the full #CfP and submit your abstract by 10 March 2025 at
www.climatemobilities.network/ecmn25/

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Kees van der Geest @keesvandergeest.bsky.social · Jan 18

My first day on Bluesky 🌞. I will post, like and share content related to research on #ClimateChange and #HumanMobility (migration, displacement, planned relocation, immobility). I also work on #LossAndDamage. Outside work, I love growing my own food. Follow me and I will follow you!🤝

Kees van der Geest @keesvandergeest.bsky.social · Jan 18

Thanks Simon! I would love to be added to the group.

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Dr. Sarah Haider-Nash @sarahnash.bsky.social · Jan 7

CALL FOR PAPERS! Start your work year off right by submitting a proposal for the workshop 'Governing Climate Mobilities 15 Years After the Cancun Agreements', being convened by me in Krems from 27th-29th May 2025. Submissions here: forms.office.com/e/Xgvr59fjAc.

Photo: © Stadt Krems

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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · Jan 4

"Rural towns and villages generally lack the resources to build enormous sea walls or levees to hold back storms and the rising tide. Many of these communities will have no choice but to relocate," Stephen Lezak writes.

Opinion | Is America Just Going to Abandon Its Towns Falling Into the Ocean?

Communities must be able to move to solid ground while remaining whole.

www.nytimes.com

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Robert McLeman @rmcleman.bsky.social · Jan 4

Great op Ed in nytimes today about organized relocations in USA due to MSLR. Ive gifted it here so others can read if it’s behind pay wall www.nytimes.com/2025/01/04/o...

Opinion | Is America Just Going to Abandon Its Towns Falling Into the Ocean? (Gift Article)

Communities must be able to move to solid ground while remaining whole.

www.nytimes.com

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Harald Sterly @hasterly.bsky.social · Nov 27

1/ 🚨 What drives #habitability changes in an era of climate crisis? Our new paper dives into the complex, dynamic, and socially differentiated concept of habitability. Here’s what you need to know 🧵 #ClimateChange #Habitability sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @HABITABLE_H2020

Habitability for a connected, unequal and changing world

As global climate change intensifies, the question of what makes a place habitable or uninhabitable is critical, particularly in the context of a pote…

sciencedirect.com

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