Start Date
8-4-2024 3:45 PM
End Date
8-4-2024 5:00 PM
Access Type
Open Access
Abstract
Climate change is expected to have widespread impacts on social and environmental systems, with implications for human health and wellbeing. The expansion of georeferenced data on population health and mobility provides new opportunities to measure these impacts. In this seminar, I will discuss new findings from analyses of climate effects on health and migration using “big microdata” from censuses and surveys around the world. I will also discuss the non- trivial limitations to these data and outline how they can be integrated with mixed-methods approaches to better-understand the social costs of climate change.
Biography
Brian Thiede is an associate professor of rural sociology and demography at The Pennsylvania State University. His research and teaching focus on the demographic and health effects of climate change around the world.
Additional Links
Climate Change, Migration, and Health: (Near-) Global Evidence
Climate change is expected to have widespread impacts on social and environmental systems, with implications for human health and wellbeing. The expansion of georeferenced data on population health and mobility provides new opportunities to measure these impacts. In this seminar, I will discuss new findings from analyses of climate effects on health and migration using “big microdata” from censuses and surveys around the world. I will also discuss the non- trivial limitations to these data and outline how they can be integrated with mixed-methods approaches to better-understand the social costs of climate change.