Anna Stilz is the Kernan Robson Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. Previously, she was the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. Her research interests include the history of political thought (particularly Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, and Marx); democratic theory; nationalism; political obligation, authority, and state legitimacy; rights to sovereignty and territory; the ethics of migration and borders; climate change and climate justice; and theories of collective agency and collective responsibility. She is the author of Liberal Loyalty: Freedom, Obligation, and the State (2009), and Territorial Sovereignty: A Philosophical Exploration (2019), and many journal articles in political philosophy. She is the current Editor-in-Chief of Philosophy and Public Affairs.

Simona Capisani is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Philosophy at Durham University (UK) and the Faculty Lead for Arts and Humanities for Durham University’s Centre for Sustainable Development Law & Policy at Durham Law School. She specializes in political philosophy, ethics (normative and applied), climate justice, international climate governance, and environmental politics. Her current work addresses moral, political, legal, and policy-focused questions of climate-related mobilities. Her research also includes a focus on moral and political issues related to loss and damage, climate adaptation, conservation, geoengineering, community engagement in climate transitions, and international climate law and governance.

Prior to joining the Department of Philosophy at Durham University, Simona wa a postdoctoral research scholar at Princeton University in the Center for Human Values and High Meadows Environmental Institute’s Climate Futures Initiative, and previously a research fellow at Harvard University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine.

She currently serves as one of the organizing officers for the International Society for Environmental Ethics and is on the steering committee for Philosophers for Sustainability.

You can find out more about Simona at https://www.simonacapisani.com/

DescriptDr. Jola Ajibade is an Associate Professor and scholar-activist in the Environmental Sciences Department at Emory University. Her scholarship advances justice-centered approaches to climate adaptation, relocation, community resilience, and future city planning. Specifically, she explores how climate change impacts and adaptation programs are transforming the lives, livelihoods, socio-cultural landscapes, and housing access for historically marginalized communities. As an urban political ecologist, Dr. Ajibade is dedicated to identifying innovative, effective, and equitable approaches to the climate crises and proposed solutions. She integrates environmental justice and antiracist lenses as well as feminist decolonial praxis and care ethics, in her approach to these challenges. Throughout her scholarly work, Jola emphasizes the importance of striving for just transformations in a changing climate. This involves advocating for disruptive and positive shifts in the global political economy, human behavior, land use patterns, tree distribution, housing, energy use, disaster management, and water security. Dr. Ajibade holds a PhD in Geography and Environmental Sustainability from Western University, Canada. Her work has been featured in many academic journals and media outlets, including Nature, Science, NPR, Al Jazeera, Science Friday, Yale Environment 360, Science, New Internationalist, and Vice. She co-edited the book titled “Global Views on Climate Relocation and Social Justice.” Published by Routledge in 2022.ion goes here

Hélène Benveniste is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard University Center for the Environment and the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability at Harvard University. She will be starting as Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Social Sciences at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability in the Fall 2024. She uses both quantitative and qualitative methods drawn from political and other social sciences to answer research questions directly relevant to international climate change policy.

Topics of her research include:

• Climate-related Human Migration, answering questions ranging from the effect of border policy on vulnerability to climate change, to the constraining effect of climate change on people’s ability to move, to the role of agriculture in explaining mobility following climate-related stress.

• Global Environmental Governance, including the role of internationally set aspirational targets in shaping countries’ actions, and conversely what to make of national pledges across varying domestic contexts; and in another line of inquiry, how to best address the climate mobility issue in the global climate change regime.

• Knowledge sharing between scientific and international communities on environmental issues, specifically how indicators, targets, scenarios and accounting rules contribute (or not) to efficient communication.

She received my Ph.D. in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy at Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs. Hélène previously was a visiting researcher at UC Berkeley’s Energy and Resources Group, at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, and at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. During the Paris Agreement year, she served as research scientist and project manager of a scientific advisory group to the French climate negotiation team, focusing on assessing countries’ Nationally Determined Contributions. As part of her career in energy and climate policy prior to graduate school, she also served as deputy attaché for energy at the French Embassy in Germany.

When not obsessing over climate change, she can be found hiking in the nearest national parks or in the local movie theater.

Barbara Buckinx is Associate Research Scholar and Lecturer in Public and International Affairs at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University. She received her PhD in Politics from Princeton University and also holds MA and MSc degrees in Psychology and Social and Political Theory, both from the University of Edinburgh.

Her research interests lie in global governance, migration, refugees, citizenship, and borders. Her teaching interests also include the environment and gender. Her work has appeared in Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, PS: Political Science & Politics, Migration Studies, Ethics & International Affairs, and Global Justice: Theory Practice Rhetoric.

She is co-editor of Domination and Global Political Justice: Conceptual, Historical, and Institutional Perspectives (Routledge, 2015) and is completing a monograph that investigates the problem of the unrestrained and potential exercise of power in global politics. In her monograph as well as her work more generally, Dr Buckinx aims to reconcile the divide between normative political theory and policy research and give guidance to scholars as well as policy makers on what to allow, what to prohibit, and how to target reform in global governance.

She is co-chair of The Global Justice Network and a member of the Global Health Impact's Pandemic Health Equity Working Group and the Normative Theory of Immigration Working Group. She also chairs the selection committee for the annual Jonathan Trejo-Mathys Essay Prize, which is co-sponsored by The Global Justice Network and the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy at Boston College. At LISD, she is the Project Lead for the Project on Self-Determination, the Environment, and Migration, and the Project on Gender in the Global Community.

Nicolas Coquette-Levy graduated from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs' Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy program in 2022. His research focuses on policy and governance frameworks for promoting resilient climate adaptation among the worlds’ 500 million smallholder farming households. He is working with Professor Michael Oppenheimer from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, and Professor Simon Levin from the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.

Nicolas seek to integrate insights from diverse methods in my work, including agent-based modelling, game theory, survey research, and robust decision-making frameworks. Some of the questions he is currently researching include:

-What factors influence smallholder farming households’ decisions regarding livelihood decisions under increasing climate risk?

-In particular, what is the relationship between rural-urban migration and other strategies for adapting to climate change? How do different policy, climate, and institutional settings impact households’ decision-making regarding these strategies?

-How can policymakers at local and global scales design incentives to promote resilient climate adaptation among smallholder farmers?

Before coming to Princeton, Nicolas obtained undergraduate degrees in Biomedical Engineering and International Relations from the University of Southern California, and a Master's degree in Energy and Environmental Systems from the University of Calgary (Canada). For his Master's thesis, he modeled the life cycle greenhouse gas emissions and economics of multiple oil sands production technologies, in order to assess the impact of potential carbon taxes on industry and government decision-making.

After earning his Master's, he worked for six years in a variety of sustainable development roles in the Canadian oil and gas industry, including sustainability reporting, environmental and social risk assessment, and technology evaluation.

Sara Constantino is an assistant professor in the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Marine and Environmental Sciences, and the Department of Psychology at Northeastern University. She works on social and environmental policy and decision-making. Her research focuses on understanding the interplay between individual, institutional and ecological factors on beliefs and values, policy, and resilience to extreme events or shocks. In recent studies, she has looked at the role of polarization, social norms and governance in stimulating or stifling support for climate action. She is currently conducting field work on the Gulf Coast on the role of neighborhood-based associations, including homeowner associations, in shaping how risks are locally distributed through adaptation and relocation policies. In this work, she also examines the dynamics that result when communities are displaced due to development or extreme events. She also works on the impacts and politics of basic income programs, and is evaluating the largest municipal program in Compton, CA.

Prior to starting at Northeastern, she was an associate research scholar at Princeton’s School of Public and International Affairs and a lecturer at the High Meadows Environmental Institute. Before this, she was senior research fellow in guaranteed income with the Jain Family Institute and a founding editor at Nature Human Behavior. She received her bachelor’s degree in economics from McGill University, a master’s degree in economics from University College London, and a Ph.D. in cognitive sciences, with a focus on learning and decision-making in dynamic environments, from New York University.

Jamie Draper is a Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow in Politics at Nuffield College, University of Oxford. From September 2023, he will be an Assistant Professor at the Ethics Institute in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Utrecht University. His work focuses on climate change, migration, and displacement, and his recent articles have been published in journals such as the European Journal of Political Theory, American Political Science Review, and Political Studies. He is currently working on a book, Climate Displacement, to be published with Oxford University Press.

Carol Farbotko is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow at Griffith University, Australia. A cultural geographer interested in place, culture, politics and mobility, her research examines how these are changing in a changing climate.

Colin Hickey is an Assistant Professor in the Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics at the University of Amsterdam. His primary research focuses on climate ethics, global justice, and bioethics. He is currently working on projects about distributing climate burdens fairly, climate activism, public health and adaptation strategies, and climate displacement. Colin received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Georgetown University and previously held postdocs at Princeton University and Utrecht University.

Nathan Jessee is a Postdoctoral Research Associate and Environmental Fellow at Princeton’s High Meadows Environmental Institute. Nathan’s work is focused on disaster and development-forced displacement, colonial and racial capitalist development, and struggles for environmental and climate justice in the Mississippi River Delta. He is co-author of a forthcoming book under contract with Palgrave Macmillan about how the colonial and racialized U.S. property regime comes to bear on Indigenous community resettlement planning efforts in the wake of extreme weather and is currently completing a solo-authored manuscript about how the Jean Charles Choctaw Nation’s long-standing efforts to resettle as “an act of cultural survival” were transformed by international media attention and government investment. This work situates emerging debates about climate change policy and planning, in particular interventions focused on human mobility and adaptation, within the long durée of geographic change, development, ecocide, and Indigenous-led advocacy on the Gulf Coast. You can also find Nathan’s writing published in Political Ecology, Human Organization, and elsewhere.

Liz Koslov is Assistant Professor of Urban Planning, Environment and Sustainability, and Sociology at UCLA. Her research brings an interdisciplinary ethnographic approach to analyzing struggles over space and place in the context of climate change, with a focus on managed retreat. She is currently writing a book, Retreat, about community organizing for home buyouts among coastal property owners after Hurricane Sandy. Her published work includes articles in Public Culture, Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Annual Review of Sociology, and other outlets, as well as the collectively authored book, People or Property: Legal Contradictions, Climate Resettlement, and the View from Shifting Ground. Before joining UCLA, Dr. Koslov was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Comparative Media Studies at MIT. She holds a PhD in Media, Culture, and Communication from New York University, an MSc in Culture and Society from the London School of Economics, and a BA in Communication and Spanish and Latin American Literatures from the George Washington University.

Woi Sok (Woi) Oh is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the High Meadows Environmental Institute and the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University. His research bridges the dynamics of humans, nature, infrastructure, and institutions as coupled systems using quantitative approaches from complex system science. He focuses on analyzing system resilience and establishing sustainable management in coupled natural-human systems. These days, he is particularly interested in human migration/displacement/mobility issues in the relationship with climate and conflict. To solve knowledge gaps, he uses complex system models, network analysis, and causal inference.

Romy Opperman is originally from London, UK and is currently a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Philosophy at The New School for Social Research. Romy’s research centers on Africana, Indigenous, decolonial feminist thinkers to foreground issues of racism and colonialism for environmental and climate ethics and justice. Her recent work has reconceptualized the intergenerational problems of climate justice through a Black feminist lens; outlined a framework for anti-nuclear anti-colonialism; and explored the ongoing significance of racism for the planetary. A second related research trajectory puts pressure on debates around climate migration and mobilities by adopting the decolonial frame of pluriversal politics in tandem with anarchist strands of Black feminist thought and climate practice. Finally, a third project looks at Sylvia Wynter’s early work and shows she repurposes insights from T. W. Adorno and Walter Benjamin to construct a distinctive Caribbean critical theory. Romy’s work has appeared in CR: The New Centennial Review, Critical Philosophy of Race, March: A Journal of Art & Strategy, The Philosopher, and Another Gaze: A Feminist Film Journal. She is currently writing a book manuscript tentatively titled Groundings: Black Ecologies of Freedom.

Linda Shi is Associate Professor at Cornell University’s Department of City and Regional Planning. She studies how urban land governance shapes vulnerability to climate impacts and how to promote climate adaptations that help repair environmental justice and ecological systems. Her current research examines how changes to land use, property rights, and disaster policy can help communities adapt in place, relocate, or migrate. She has a PhD in urban and regional planning from MIT.

Melissa Oberon Tier is a PhD candidate at the Princeton School of Public & International Affairs in the Science, Technology, & Environmental Policy program. Her research on climate adaptation policy interweaves topics in multi-level governance, environmental justice, urban planning, and behavioral science.

Melissa is actively involved in a number of community-based and co-produced initiatives, including via the regional Megalopolitan Coastal Transformation Hub (MACH) and NYC Resilient Coastal Communities Project. She co-teaches an Environmental Justice course with the NJ Prison Teaching Initiative, and previously worked as a Graduate Fellow at both the NYC Mayor's Office of Climate & Environmental Justice and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA). At Princeton, she is a member of the Center for Policy Research on Energy & the Environment, the Behavioral Science for Policy Lab, and the SPIA in NJ initiative.

Before joining the Princeton community, Melissa served for 5 years as the first Sustainability Program Manager at Swarthmore College, PA, helping to launch the Office of Sustainability and to facilitate environmental and climate institutional decision-making. She holds an MSc in Sustainable Urban Development from the University of Oxford and a BA in Psychology from Swarthmore.

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Lisa Thalheimer is a climate economist with a focus on the impacts of climate change and resulting human responses including migration and conflict. She is a Senior Researcher at the United Nations University - Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS). She completed her postdoctoral research at Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs. She is an associate researcher with Climate Econometrics, the World Weather Attribution initiative and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, and part of the RISK-KAN steering committee.

Her research focuses on three pillars: effect, causality, and interventions. Her research seeks to disentangle the underlying drivers of human (im)mobility and attribute extreme weather-driven human mobility to anthropogenic climate change. Her research interests include anticipatory action, compound events, and systemic risk. Thalheimer co-leads the CLON Project that aims to better understand climate change impacts on (im)mobility and conflict.

Dr. Thalheimer received her DPhil (PhD) from the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford, and a MS in Sustainability Management from Columbia University. Her doctoral research developed a method to quantitatively assess the contribution of climate change to human mobility, combining methods from climate science and econometrics. Prior to joining UNU, she worked in a variety of roles at international organizations and NGOs such as the World Bank and The Earth Institute, providing her with a multifaceted, international background in environmental economics and climate policy.

Website: https://lisathalheimer.github.io/

Merewalesi Yee recently attained her PhD from the University of Queensland in Australia. Merewalesi’s PhD project focused on indigenous communities in Fiji, delving into their lived experiences in the context of climate (im)mobility. Merewalesi has over 15 years of teaching experience in Fiji and the Pacific region. Over the past five years, Merewalesi has been deeply engaged in research activities in Fiji, exploring themes such as voluntary immobility, planned relocation, non-economic loss and damage, disaster risk reduction, and place-belongingness. Merewalesi aims to continue to contribute to the development of culturally appropriate solutions for addressing the complex challenges of climate change, displacement, loss and damage, and gender inequality in the Pacific. Utilising indigenous research methodologies tailored to the cultural context of the Pacific Islands region, her work emphasises community engagement and collaboration with a diverse array of stakeholders. This approach includes government agencies, civil society organizations, and affected communities.n goes here