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"Contributors" [2017] ELECD 1342; in Mayer, Benoît; Crépeau, François (eds), "Research Handbook on Climate Change, Migration and the Law" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017) viii

Book Title: Research Handbook on Climate Change, Migration and the Law

Editor(s): Mayer, Benoît; Crépeau, François

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781785366581

Section Title: Contributors

Number of pages: 7

Extract:

Contributors


Gervais Appave is currently the Special Policy Adviser to the Director
General of the International Organization for Migration. He was the
founding Director of the Migration Policy, Research and Communication
(MPRC) Department at the IOM. He has been the editor in chief and
a contributing author to several IOM World Migration Reports. His
professional itinerary and responsibilities have revolved around the search
for effective policies for the governance of human mobility.
Frank Biermann is a research Professor of Global Sustainability
Governance with the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development,
Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He also
chairs the Earth System Governance Project, a global transdisciplinary
research network launched in 2009. Biermann's current research examines
multilateral institutions, options for reform of the United Nations, global
adaptation governance, Sustainable Development Goals, the political
role of science, global justice, non-state climate actions, and conceptual
innovations such as the notion of the Anthropocene.
Ingrid Boas is Assistant Professor at the Environmental Policy Group
at Wageningen University, the Netherlands. Her research is in the field
of environmental change, mobilities and governance, with a focus on
environmentally-induced migration, climate security and climate resilience.
She has recently been awarded a personal grant on the subject of
environmentally-related migration in the digital age. Her recent book is
Climate Migration and Security: Securitisation as a Strategy in Climate
Change Politics (2015).
Maxine Burkett is a Professor of Law at the William S. Richardson School
of Law, University of Hawai`i and a Global ...