Sara Curran - University of Washington

Climate Variability & Migration: Some Evidence from Thailand

    Date:  02/14/2013 (Thu)

    Time:  3:30pm- 5:00pm

    Location:  Seminar will be held on-site: Social Sciences 111

    Organizer:  Giovanna Merli


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    All meetings will be held in the same location as the seminar unless otherwise noted.

   *** - All meetings (unless otherwise noted) will be in 222 Soc-Sci - ***

    8:50am - Breakfast (Katherine King)

   10:00am - PHE symposium

   10:30am - PHE Symposium

   11:00am - PHE symposium

   11:30am - PHE symposium

   12:00pm - Lunch with Randy Kramer (Faculty Commons)

    1:00pm - Meet w/ DuPRI Students: Paige Borelli, Nick Ingwersen, Ryan Brown

    1:45pm - Bill Pan & Alisson Barbieri

    2:15pm - OPEN

    2:45pm - Duncan Thomas

    3:15pm - Seminar Prep (111 Soc-Sci)

    3:30pm - Seminar Presentation (3:30pm to 5:00pm)

    6:00pm - Dinner: Curran, Sanders, Pearson (Parizade)


    Additional Comments:  ABSTRACT: In analysis of longitudinal data about migration behavior in rural northeastern Thailand, we examine the association of migration behavior with patterns of NDVI signals to estimate exposure to non-modal clusters over varying periods of retrospective time. Our hazard model approach indicates significantly different associations between rural out migration and return migration depending on the length of the temporal lens. We offer explanations for our findings in a review of literature about risk and rural livelihoods and evidence from several forays into the field to collect qualitative data.