Beyond Migration and Development
Professor Ronald Skeldon University of Sussex discusses the link between migration and development in this lecture delivered at the International Migration Institute, University of Oxford, on 23 February 2012.
Migration and Global Environmental Change
The research project Migration and Global Environmental Change examines how profound changes in environmental conditions such as flooding, drought and rising sea levels will influence and interact with patterns of global human migration over the next 50 years.
Sir John Beddington, Professor Richard Black and Neil Adger explain what the final report concludes and what it means for the future of global migration.
David Ockwell's research into low-carbon technology transfer to developing countries
Global transformations research at Sussex contributes to rethinking social adaptation in the context of changing environment through collaborative working. A new approach to international co-operation in the area of clean energy technologies is essential for avoiding carbon emissions from future eceonomic development. Researchers at the University of Sussex are assisting the UK Government in developing a policy proposal for a new international climate change agreement to replace the Kyoto Protocol when it expires in 2012.
Climate Change and Human Migration
Chris Smith on understanding the factors influencing migration and how we could get an accurate picture of future migration flows due to climate change. Download a related one-page brief at http://www.ids.ac.uk/go/climate-lite
Climate Lite is produced by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) and the Climate Change and Development Centre (CCDC)
A BSc Geography undergraduate's perspective
University of Sussex undergraduate student Sarah Hepburn talks about her BSc degree in Geography
Seychelles fieldclass
Second year Geography students from the University of Sussex take part in a 12-day biodiversity fieldclass on the remote Seychelles island of Silhouette.
Vietnam fieldclass
Second year Geography students from the University of Sussex take part in their annual fieldclass to Vietnam.