Conference: Rural Futures in South East Asia
01.08.-02.08.2018
The conference will address the intersection of pressing issues for rural development in Southeast Asia, with a special emphasis on migration and climate change.
The conference is co-organized by the TransRe project, the IPSR/Mahidol University and the มูลนิธิรักษ์ไทย : Raks Thai Foundation, aims at creating a forum for scientific exchange at the nexus of environment, migration, and development (including adaptation and resilience), bringing together scholars from different disciplines and fields of research (risk and vulnerability studies, migration studies, climate change adaptation, development studies, agriculture, etc.).
The conference is to take place on 01.08.-02.08.2018 in Bangkok.
It will include discussing the findings of the Trans|Re project (www.transre.org) and putting them into the context of other studies.
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The conference will address the intersection of pressing issues for rural development in Southeast Asia, with a special emphasis on migration and climate change.
Climate change is already influencing rural livelihoods in South East Asia – at the same time, demographic change and rural out migration are creating additional challenges for agricultural and rural societies and beyond.
On the other hand, rural places are strongly connected to outside places such as cities and other destination countries of migrants who significantly contribute to rural livelihoods, for example, through financial and social remittances. This perspective is reflected in the emerging notion of “migration as adaptation”, which has opened a more nuanced view of migration in the face of climate change, recognizing migrants’ agency and potential contribution to adaptation to environmental risks.
While there are strong and active communities researching environment/climate change, agriculture, development and adaptation, on the one hand, and migration and demography on the other; there is little exchange between the two scientific communities.
