Due to expanding populations, including the influx of migrant from climate-affected regions, cities’ residents, infrastructure and services are highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Indeed, many cities are already suffering from climate-related hazards including flooding, coastal erosion, heatwaves and landslides, and many more will have to face these risks in the future. Informal cities are at the forefront of these challenges.

Changes in mobility patterns of climate migrants in Ethiopia
Jin-ho Chung

Reform is a common theme in Greek political discourse. However, its content remains vague and controversial. Our interventions will discuss reforms in Greece from the point of view of “significant departures from the status quo”. Such a perspective refers to the extent to which reforms address deeper policy issues and challenge existing institutional arrangements in a substantial way. Examples of reforms changing Greece are presented in the fields of public administration, and the business environment. We further discuss some of the reform challenges that lie ahead.

Seminar series: Rupture and Reconciliation in Contexts of Displacement

Convened by Cory Rodgers (Oxford University) and Elias Lopez (Comillas Pontifical University).

Campion Hall and the Refugee Studies Centre present a seven-part seminar series on reconciliation in the contexts of displacement

With 70% of the Earth’s surface covered by the seas and oceans but most of that space beyond the territory of states, there is something of a jurisdictional vacuum when it comes to Human Rights, which states are under an obligation to provide for, to protect and to fulfil. Who monitors compliance with Human Rights standards at sea? Who has responsibility for enforcing those standards? How great a problem is this and what are the prospects for the establishment of the ‘rule of law’ at sea?

This paper compares a national multidimensional poverty index (MPI) with child disaggregation of that same MPI, and then with an individual-level child MPI, which uses age-specific indicators covering the cycle of childhood, to assess the convergence and value-added of these different measurement approaches empirically. It focuses on Punjab Province in Pakistan. In 2016, the Government of Pakistan launched an official national MPI, covering 15 indicators across the dimensions of education, health, and standard of living, and provided estimations disaggregated to the district level.

Abstract:

What would have to happen for this generation to live within its environmental means and to bequeath to the next generation a set of assets at least as good as it inherited?

What would the sustainable economy look like? How do we stop climate change and biodiversity loss?