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UN Brown-bag seminar: Climate change and mortality

12 Apr 2024 03:04 (7 months ago)

UN Brown-bag seminar: Climate change and mortalityOn Monday, 15 April, at 12:00pm, in person at the Population Council (1 Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, New York, NY 10017) and virtually on MS Teams

BiB Population Research Series: Population Dynamics Under Global Climate Change

22 Jan 2024 02:01 (10 months ago)

Raya Muttarak will talk about the impact of Climate factors on demographic processes. Date and time: 31 January 2024, 11.00 - 12.15 CET Although it is highly plausible that climate change wil...

IIASA Voices #12: Understanding emerging migration drivers and their implications

21 Dec 2023 12:12 (11 months ago)

The twelfth IIASA Voices webinar will focus on the role of different drivers in shaping migration worldwide with IIASA researchers Raya Muttarak, Jesus Crespo Cuaresma, and Gregor Zens presenting insights from their recent work. T...

Ted Talk: Raya Muttarak

08 Nov 2023 08:11 (1 year ago)

Raya Muttarak gave the talk at TedTalk x Vicenza on November 12, 2023"Fertility, mortality and migration are the three main factors that guide demographic dynamics; the same three factors that climate chang...

OPR Seminar: Assessing the Potential Impact of Climate Change on Fertility

20 Oct 2023 04:10 (1 year ago)

Raya Muttarak is going to give the presentation on "Assessing the Potential Impact of Climate Change on Fertility" at the Office of Population Research, Princeton University. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...

A finer picture of global migration reveals complex patterns

09 Sep 2023 04:09 (1 year ago)

Raya Muttarak and the research group at Aalto University gave an interview for the Phys.org internet news.  The new analysis covers the past two decades, 2000–2019. The high-resolution dataset they prepared makes it possibl...

Migratory flows in the last 10 years, the Unibo study and the interactive map

09 Sep 2023 03:09 (1 year ago)

Raya Muttarak gave an interview for the Bologna Today news. She explains her study under the title "World's human migration patterns in 2000–2019 unveiled by high-resolution data" which was published in Nature H...

World Population Day: How will our planet cope with 10 billion people?

12 Jul 2023 11:07 (1 year ago)

Raya Muttarak gave an interview for the national newsRaya Muttarak, professor of demography at the University of Bologna in Italy, said the real challenge of dealing with climate change is reducing consumption in...

JRC Ispra: Demography and climate change: Panel discussion with Vice-President Dubravka Šuica

28 May 2023 04:05 (1 year ago)

European Commission Vice-President Dubravka Šuica joins a panel discussion amongst demography experts and launches the Science-for-Policy report ‘Demography and climate change: EU in the global context’. Webstreamed event...

Tipping points webinar series: Education and Digitalisation

04 May 2023 03:05 (1 year ago)

Join AIMES, the Earth Commission, Future Earth, and the WCRP Safe Landing Climates Lighthouse Activity for a webinar on education and digitalisation as part of a series that aims to advance the knowledge about tipping points, irreversibility, and...

DSEAS Seminar: Climate change and population: challenges and opportunities for sustainable development

01 May 2023 06:05 (1 year ago)

The DSEAS seminar " Climate change and population: challenges and opportunities for sustainable development " will be held on Monday 22 May 2023 at 09:15 in the Aula Magna "V. Li Donni", the University of Palermo....

CPC-CG Webinar: "Population Dynamics Under Global Climate Change"

29 Mar 2023 07:03 (1 year ago)

On Wednesday 5 April, 13:00-14:00 (UK time), Raya Muttarak, Professor of Demography at University of Bologna, will present: "Population Dynamics Under Global Climate Change".  

CIESIN 25th Anniversary Seminar Series: "Climate change impacts on fertility in low- and middle-income countries"

28 Mar 2023 10:03 (1 year ago)

Feel free to join us remotely for this webinar, co-presented by Raya Muttarak, former chair of the PERN scientific committee. CIESIN 25th Anniversary Seminar Series: "Climate change impacts on fertility in low- and middl...

Joint Baruch Marxe & CIDR Seminar: Spring 2023

28 Mar 2023 10:03 (1 year ago)

Joint Baruch Marxe & CIDR Seminar: Spring 2023"Climate change impacts on fertility in low- and middle-income countries"Tue, April 18, 12:30 Eastern TimePresenters: Raya Muttarak (Univ...

Raya Muttarak: Population Dynamics under Global Climate Change

28 Mar 2023 10:03 (1 year ago)

Australian bushfire in 2020 and severe floods in Western Europe and exceptional heatwaves in North America in summer 2021, to name a few, are examples of extreme events that are documented to be attributable to anthropogenic climate change. Indeed...

Experience of climate extremes increase Green voting in Europe

24 Dec 2022 06:12 (1 year ago)

What role do experiences with climate change and extreme events play in shaping environmental attitudes and to what extent can they explain the recent rise in environmental concerns and willingness to vote for Green parties across Europe? IIASA re...

Raya Muttarak Appointed Editor of Population and Development Review

24 Dec 2022 06:12 (1 year ago)

The Population Council announced Raya Muttarak, Professor of Demography at the Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Bologna as new Editors of Population and Development Review (PDR).The Population Council announc...